Erv Pitts

Ervin Ralph Pitts was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as a head coach at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota in football and basketball. Pitts then served in a similar capacity at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, first as a head football coach and then as head men's basketball coach.
A native of Coffeyville, Kansas, Pitts played college football at the University of Missouri. As a quarterback for the Missouri Tigers, he led a split-T offense for head coach Don Faurot.