Edwin F. Gayle

Edwin Franklin Gayle (August 18, 1875 – May 11, 1976) was an American lawyer and college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette–then known as the Southwestern Louisiana Institute–in 1904.

Gayle was an 1896 graduate of Louisiana State University (LSU). He later earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1903 and a law degree from the Tulane University Law School in 1906.