| Stanley A. Boles | |
| Birth Date: | 25 July 1887 |
| Birth Place: | Williamstown, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1913 |
| Coach Team2: | Polytechnic (TX) |
| Coach Years3: | 1914 |
| Coach Team3: | TCU |
| Coach Years4: | 1915 |
| Coach Team4: | Trinity (TX) |
| Coach Years5: | 1916 |
| Coach Team5: | Kentucky (assistant) |
| Coach Years6: | 1917 |
| Coach Team6: | Kentucky |
| Coach Sport7: | Basketball |
| Coach Years8: | 1917–1918 |
| Coach Team8: | Kentucky |
| Coach Sport9: | Golf |
| Coach Years10: | 1938–1946 |
| Coach Team10: | Kentucky |
| Admin Years1: | 1915–1916 |
| Admin Team1: | Trinity (TX) |
| Admin Years2: | 1917–1933 |
| Admin Team2: | Kentucky |
| Overall Record: | 11–17–7 (football) 9–2–1 (basketball) |
Stanley Atwood "Daddy" Boles (July 25, 1887 – December 4, 1961) was an American college football and college basketball coach and athletics administrator. He was the athletic director at the University of Kentucky from 1917 through 1933. He also served as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats football and Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball teams for one season each. He was responsible for hiring legendary men's basketball coach Adolph Rupp at Kentucky.
Boles was born on July 25, 1887, in Williamstown, Kentucky. He graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College, earned a master's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1911, and also studied at the University of Virginia.
Boles served as the head football coach at Polytechnic College—now known as Texas Wesleyan University—in Fort Worth, Texas, for one season, in 1913, leading his team to a record of 2–2–4.[1] [2] Boles was the head football coach at Texas Christian University (TCU) in 1914 and then at Trinity University in Waxahachie, Texas, in 1915.[3] [4]
In 1916, Boles was hired by the University of Kentucky to assist athletic director John J. Tigert with coaching.[5] He was he head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats football team in 1917, compiling a 3–5–1 record He also served as Kentucky's basketball coach in 1917–18, tallying a mark of 9–2–1 record. The rare basketball tie, against Kentucky Wesleyan, was because of a scorer's error that was not discovered until after the game had ended and both teams had departed.
Boles was found dead at his home, in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 4, 1961.[6] His brother, Ewing T. Boles, was a noted businessman and philanthropist.