Joseph Audley Pierce (August 31, 1874 – June 23, 1956) was an American football coach.
He was the first head football coach at the University of Tennessee, serving from 1899 to 1900 and compiling a record of 9–4–1.
Pierce was an alumnus of Lafayette College.
Pierce died in 1956 and was buried in Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[2] # denotes interim head coach This biographical article relating to a college football coach first appointed in the 1890s is a stub.