William Fred DeLay (January 17, 1901 – September 25, 1969)[1] was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator.
He served as the head football coach at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee from 1937 to 1942 and again in 1948.
[2] DeLay was born and raised in Lascassas, Tennessee.
He played college football and college baseball at Middle Tennessee State Normal School—now known as Middle Tennessee State University and earned a master's degree at Peabody College.
[3][4] He died at the age of 68, on September 25, 1969, at Parkview Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.