Thomas Joe Dwyer (September 17, 1889 – July 29, 1959) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and civil engineer.
He served in the United States Army during World War I and later worked for 29 years as a civil engineer for Gulf Oil.
In an era when eligibility rules were laxly enforced, Dwyer also occasionally played for the Texas Mines teams that he coached.
During World War I, Dwyer served in the United States Army as a captain with the 116th Engineer Regiment, which was part of the 41st "Rainbow" Division in France.
[6][7] Dwyer married Agnes Wood in September 1923 in a ceremony in El Paso.