He served as the head football coach at Western Kentucky University from 1957 to 1967, compiling a record of 57–39–7.
Denes was also the head baseball coach at Western Kentucky from 1958 to 1962, tallying a mark of 48–40–1.
Nick Denes Field, the home venue for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers baseball team, is named for him.
Denes was born in 1906 in Bucharest, Romania and raised in Garrett, Indiana.
[3] Denes died on November 28, 1975, at Greenview Hospital in Bowling Green, Kentucky.