Lewis William Riess (October 19, 1887 â January 4, 1946) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at HampdenâÂÂSydney College from 1908 to 1910 and at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) â now known as Virginia Tech â in 1911, and RandolphâÂÂMacon College from 1912 to 1917, compiling a career college football record of 33âÂÂ39âÂÂ4. Riess was also the head basketball coach at HampdenâÂÂSydney from 1908 to 1912, amassing a record of 3âÂÂ6, and the head baseball coach at VPI in 1912, tallying a mark of 9âÂÂ9.
Riess left RandolphâÂÂMacon in December 1917 to become the athletic director of a United States Army aviation camp in Jacksonville, Florida. He served as the activity secretary of the Army-Navy YMCA in Honolulu from 1938 to 1941. He died on January 4, 1946, in Belgium.