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Roy Lester

E. Roy Lester

  • Class
    1949
  • Induction
    2008
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Men's Basketball, Baseball
E. Roy Lester, a native of Spencer, West Virginia, was a three-sport letterman in football, basketball and baseball from 1946-49.
 
One of the few three-sport lettermen, he served as a center on the basketball team, played 21 games and scored 27 points in his career. Lester also was an end for the Mountaineers’ 1949 Sun Bowl team under the direction of head coach Dudley S. DeGroot. Throughout his career on the football team, he had 16 receptions for 259 yards and two touchdowns. As an outfielder for the baseball team, Lester lettered from 1947-49. In his final two seasons, Lester collected 53 hits and held a .339 batting average.
 
After graduating from WVU with a degree in political science, Lester went on to play for the Philadelphia Eagles’ farm team, the Paterson Panthers, in New Jersey in 1949. In 1950, he began his coaching career with a two-year stint at Walton High, in Walton, West Virginia, and then moved to Allegany High in Cumberland, Maryland.
 
From 1958-68, Lester was head coach at Richard Montgomery High, in Rockville, Maryland, where he posted an impressive 86-10-1 record and coach pro football standout Mike Curtis. At the completion of his final season in 1968, he held a record of 25 consecutive victories.
 
After a remarkable coaching career at the high school level, Lester was hired as head coach at Maryland in 1969 and served in that capacity for three years. He also served as assistant coach with the Terrapins for three seasons. He finished his career in the high school ranks in Maryland, winning three state championships.

Lester died May 3, 2020, due to complications from the coronavirus.
 
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