Theodore L. Ted Jeffries was an American football coach. He served as head coach at Wichita Falls High School from 1933 43, taking the school to its first state championship in 1941. Jeffries later coached at Lamar University, at a time when the school was still a junior college. In 1947, he became head coach at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. Among his former players was later Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints coach Bum Phillips and Texas A&M University coach R.C. Slocum. Slocum played for Coach Jeffries at Stark High School in Orange,Texas.