William Everett Derryberry
William Everett Derryberry was an American college football player and coach and university president. He graduated from the University of Tennessee and studied at Oxford University a Rhodes Scholar. He served as president of Tennessee Tech University from 1940 to 1974.
College football
Derryberry was a football player at the University of Tennessee, lettering in 1925 and 1927. He was the first person in that school's history to earn a perfect 4.0 grade point average. He was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity at the University of Tennessee and was recognized by the fraternity as a Significant Sig in 1977. He served as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee Junior College at Martin from 1934 to 1936.Before and after his coaching career, he earned two degrees from Oxford University in Oxford, England while studying as a Rhodes Scholar.