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{{Infobox college coach
| name = L. W. Riess
| image = LW Riess.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Riess cropped from the 1909 Hampden–Sydney football team photo
| sport = [[American football|Football]], [[basketball]], [[baseball]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|10|19}}
| birth_place = [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|1|4|1887|10|19}}
| death_place = [[Antwerp, Belgium]]
| alma_mater = [[Swarthmore College]]
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1908–1909
| coach_team2 = [[Hampden–Sydney Tigers football|Hampden–Sydney]]
| coach_years3 = 1911
| coach_team3 = [[Virginia Tech Hokies football|VPI]]
| coach_sport4 = Basketball
| coach_years5 = 1908–1912
| coach_team5 = [[Hampden–Sydney Tigers basketball|Hampden–Sydney]]
| coach_sport6 = Baseball
| coach_years7 = 1912
| coach_team7 = [[Virginia Tech Hokies baseball|VPI]]
| admin_years1 = 1910
| admin_team1 = [[Virginia Tech Hokies|VPI]]
| admin_years2 = c. 1915
| admin_team2 = [[Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets|Randolph–Macon]]
| overall_record = 14–9–2 (football)<br>3–6 (basketball)<br>9–9 (baseball)
| bowl_record = 
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| championships = 
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| coaching_records = 
}}
'''Lewis William Riess''' (October 19, 1887 – January 4, 1946) an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] coach and college athletics administrator.  He served as the head football coach at [[Hampden–Sydney College]] from 1908 to 1910 and at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI)—now known as [[Virginia Tech]]—in 1911, compiling a career [[college football]] record of 14–9–2.  Riess was also the head basketball coach at Hampden–Sydney from 1908 to 1912, amassing a record of 3–6, and the head baseball coach at Virginia Tech in 1912, tally a mark of 9–9.  He died of a heart attack in 1946 in Belgium.

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Hampden–Sydney Tigers football|Hampden–Sydney Tigers]]
 | conf      = 
 | startyear = 1908
 | endyear   = 1909
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1908 college football season|1908]]
 | name         = Hampden–Sydney
 | overall      = 5–4
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 | ranking      = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1909 college football season|1909]]
 | name         = Hampden–Sydney
 | overall      = 3–4
 | conference   = 
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Hampden–Sydney
 | overall    = 8–8
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Virginia Tech Hokies football|VPI]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1911
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1911 college football season|1911]]
 | name         = [[1911 VPI football team|VPI]]
 | overall      = 6–1–2
 | conference   = 
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = VPI
 | overall    = 6–1–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 14–9–2
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Find a Grave|56293743}}

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[[Category:1887 births]]
[[Category:1946 deaths]]
[[Category:Hampden–Sydney Tigers football coaches]]
[[Category:Hampden–Sydney Tigers basketball coaches]]
[[Category:Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets athletic directors]]
[[Category:Virginia Tech Hokies athletic directors]]
[[Category:Virginia Tech Hokies baseball coaches]]
[[Category:Virginia Tech Hokies football coaches]]
[[Category:Swarthmore College alumni]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Philadelphia]]

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