William Everett Derryberry


William Everett Derryberry 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 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.