Sylvester Derby
Appearance
![]() Derby pictured in The Forester 1921, Lake Forest yearbook | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | Lemont, Illinois, U.S. | February 13, 1892
Died | June 5, 1974 Kokomo, Indiana, U.S. | (aged 82)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1913–1914 | Illinois |
Position(s) | End |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1919–1920 | Lake Forest |
1921 | Delaware |
Basketball | |
1920–1921 | Lake Forest |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 13–10–2 (football) 5–9 (basketball) |
Sylvester Randall Derby (February 13, 1892 – June 5, 1974)[1] was an American college football head coach. He coached for two seasons at Lake Forest College in Illinois where he compiled an 8–6–2 overall record. Derby then moved on to coach the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team in 1921 where he finished 5–4 in one season.
Head coaching record
[edit]Football
[edit]Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Lake Forest Foresters (Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1919–1920) | |||||||||
1919 | Lake Forest | 3–3–2 | |||||||
1920 | Lake Forest | 5–3 | |||||||
Lake Forest: | 8–6–2 | ||||||||
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens (Independent) (1921) | |||||||||
1921 | Delaware | 5–4 | |||||||
Delaware: | 5–4 | ||||||||
Total: | 13–10–2 |
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Categories:
- 1892 births
- 1974 deaths
- American football ends
- Basketball coaches from Illinois
- College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
- Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football coaches
- Illinois Fighting Illini football players
- Lake Forest Foresters football coaches
- Lake Forest Foresters men's basketball coaches
- People from Lemont, Illinois
- Players of American football from Cook County, Illinois
- Players of American football from DuPage County, Illinois
- College football coaches first appointed in the 1910s stubs