Ervin Ralph Pitts (September 14, 1920 – January 17, 1999) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.
[1] He served as a head coach at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota in football (1954 to 1955) and basketball (1954 to 1956).
[2] Pitts then served in a similar capacity at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, first as a head football coach (1964 to 1968) and then as head men's basketball coach (1973).
[3] A native of Coffeyville, Kansas, Pitts played college football at the University of Missouri.
As a quarterback for the Missouri Tigers, he led a split-T offense for head coach Don Faurot.