Tommy Dwyer

Thomas Joe Dwyer (September 17, 1889 – July 29, 1959) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and civil engineer. He played football for Texas A&M University and was the first football coach at the Texas School of Mines (now known as the University of Texas at El Paso) coaching the team from 1914 to 1919 and compiling record of 9–11–1. He served in the United States Army during World War I and later worked for 29 years as a civil engineer for Gulf Oil.

Early years Dwyer was a native of El Paso, Texas. He attended Texas A&M College where he played football and graduated with a degree in engineering. He taught calculus at the school. Texas Mines did not field a team during Dwyer's absence in 1918.

Family and later years Dwyer later had a career as a civil engineer, working in the oil business. He was employed for 29 years by Gulf Oil. In 1928, he was assigned Gulf's new operation center in Odessa, Texas. He was transferred in 1946 to Gulf's Fort Worth offices. He became the chief engineer at the company's Fort Worth operation until his retirement in 1954.

Dwyer married Agnes Wood in September 1923 in a ceremony in El Paso. They had two children, Agnes Barbara (born 1930) and Tom Verne (born 1933).

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