![]() Lyon pictured in Cream and Crimson 1896, Central yearbook
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Sport(s) | Football |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Boonton, New Jersey |
September 15, 1872
Died | April 3, 1957 Stamford, Connecticut |
(aged 84)
Alma mater |
Central University (1896) Yale University |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1899 | Ole Miss |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 3–4 |
William Hillyer Lyon (September 15, 1872 – April 3, 1957) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1899. During his one-season tenure at Ole Miss, Lyon compiled an overall record of three wins and four losses (3–4). Lyon was born in 1872 in Boonton, New Jersey. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
In 1906, Lyon was working for a lumber company in Bridgeport, Connecticut as a travelling salesman. By the time of World War I, Lyon living in Bridgeport working as an accountant for the United States Government.
He died in Stamford in 1957.