Ted Jefferies

Ted Jefferies
	Jeffries pictured in Yoncopin 1929, Centenary yearbook
Biographical details
Born	November 8, 1908; Jacksonville, Texas
Died	January 2, 1985 (aged 76); Nacogdoches, Texas
Alma mater	Centenary College of Louisiana (1929)
Playing career
1925–1928	Centenary
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1933–1943	Wichita Falls HS (TX)
1946	Lamar JC
1947–1955	Stephen F. Austin
Head coaching record
Overall	41–40–3 (at SFA); 83–33–8 (at Wichita Falls HS)

Theodore Lemuel Jefferies (November 8, 1908 – January 2, 1985) was an American football player and coach. Jefferies was an alumnus of the Centenary College of Louisiana, which he graduated from in 1929, as president of the student body and as "candidate for a B.S. degree.^[1]^[2] He served as head coach at Wichita Falls High School from 1933 to 1943, taking the school to its first state championship in 1941. Jefferies later coached at Lamar University, at a time when the school was still a junior college. In 1947, he became head coach at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Among his former players was later Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints coach Bum Phillips and Texas A&M University coach R. C. Slocum. Slocum played for Jefferies at Stark High School in Orange, Texas. Mr. Ted, as he was called, came out of retirement to coach in Orange. In Slocum's senior season, 1962, Jefferies took Orange to the state semifinals.

References

Cashion, Ty (1998). Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches. Austin: Texas State Historical Association. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0-87611-168-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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