Sylvester Derby

Sylvester Derby
Biographical details
Derby pictured in The Forester 1921, Lake Forest yearbook
Sport(s)	Football
Born	(1892-02-13)February 13, 1892^[1] Lemont, Illinois
Died	June 5, 1974(1974-06-05) (aged 82) Kokomo, Indiana
Alma mater	University of Illinois
Playing career
1913–1914	Illinois
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1919–1920	Lake Forest
1921	Delaware
Head coaching record
Overall	13–10–2

Sylvester Randall Derby (February 13, 1892 – June 5, 1974) was an American college football head coach. He coached for two seasons at Lake Forest College in Illinois where he compiled an 8–6–2 overall record. Derby then moved on to coach the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team in 1921 where he finished 5–4 in one season.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall
Lake Forest Foresters (Independent) (1919–1920)
1919	Lake Forest	3–3–2
1920	Lake Forest	5–3
Lake Forest:		8–6–2
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens (Independent) (1921)
1921	Delaware	5–4
Delaware:		5–4
Total:		13–10–2

References

Lake Forest Foresters head football coaches

No coach (1882)
No team (1883–1887)
No coach (1888–1898)
D. H. Jackson (1899–1900)
Unknown (1901)
Clarence Herschberger (1902–1904)
James A. Vaughan (1905–1906)
R. E. Brumbaugh (1907)
Burt E. Kennedy (1908–1913)
Ira T. Carrithers (1914)
Ralph Thacker (1915)
E. J. Mather (1916–1918)
Sylvester Derby (1919–1920)
Ralph Glaze (1921–1923)
Floyd L. Brown (1924–1928)
Ira MacIntosh (1929–1932)
Ralph Jones (1933–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Ralph Jones (1946–1948)
John W. Breen (1949–1951)
Wally Lemm (1952–1953)
Alvin Hanks (1954–1956)
Wally Lemm (1957)
Nick Wasylik (1958–1965)
Mike Dau (1966–1991)
Maury Waugh (1992–1994)
Randy Moore (1995–1999)
Chad Eisele (2000–2004)
Brent Becker (2005–2008)
Jim Catanzaro (2009– )

Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens head football coaches

No coach (1889–1895)
Ira Pierce (1896)
Herbert Rice (1897–1901)
Clarence A. Short (1902)
Nathan Mannakee (1903–1905)
Clarence A. Short (1906)
E. Pratt King (1907)
William McAvoy (1908–1916)
Stan Baumgartner (1917)
Milton Aronowitz (1918)
Burton Shipley (1919–1920)
Sylvester Derby (1921)
William McAvoy (1922–1924)
Frank M. Forstburg (1925–1926)
Joseph J. Rothrock (1927–1928)
Gus Ziegler (1929–1930)
Charles Rogers (1931–1933)
Skip Stahley (1934)
Lyal Clark (1935–1937)
Stephen Grenda (1938–1939)
William D. Murray (1940–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
William D. Murray (1946–1950)
David M. Nelson (1951–1965)
Tubby Raymond (1966–2001)
K. C. Keeler (2002–2012)
Dave Brock (2013–2016)
Dennis Dottin-Carter # (2016)
Danny Rocco (2017– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football—national champions

Ralph Chapman George Clark Sylvester Derby Perry Graves Bart Macomber Harold Pogue Head coach Robert Zuppke

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