William Albert Shibley (October 7, 1876 – April 27, 1926) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

coach. He served as the head football coach at the

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(Ole Miss) in 1901. During his one-season tenure at Ole Miss, Shibley compiled an overall record of two wins and four losses (2–4). Shibley was an alumnus of the

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. He played

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for the

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in 1899.

Head coaching record

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* 1876 births 1926 deaths 19th-century players of American football Ole Miss Rebels football coaches Virginia Cavaliers football players People from Van Buren, Arkansas Players of American football from Arkansas {{Mississippi-stub