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American football player/coach and university president
William Everett Derryberry
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American football player/coach and university president
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85 years
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University of Oxford
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William Everett Derryberry (October 11, 1906 – October 26, 1991) was an American football player and coach and university president.
College football
Derryberry was a football player at the University of Tennessee, lettering in 1925 and 1927. He was the first person in that school's history to earn a perfect 4.0 grade point average. He served as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee Junior College at Martin (now known as UT Martin) from 1934 to 1936.
Before and after his coaching career, he earned two degrees from Oxford University in Oxford, England while studying as a Rhodes Scholar.
Tennessee Tech presidency
Derryberry was the president of Tennessee Technological University from 1940 to 1974.
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