William Patrick "Hiker" Joy (c. 1888 – September 13, 1969) was an American football player and coach.
He went on to attend the College of the Holy Cross, where he was a member of the member of the varsity relay team for four years and was captain of the Holy Cross Crusaders football and basketball teams during his senior year.
He left Hyde Park following the outbreak of World War I to join the United States Army Air Service.
In 1939, Joy retired from sports and returned to Massachusetts, where he worked as an insurance broker and was a trustee of the Boston Elevated Railway.
[1] In 1943, RKO Radio Pictures hired Joy as a technical advisor for football sequences in The Iron Major, a biographical film about Frank Cavanaugh.