Bud Riley
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 25, 1925 Guin, Alabama |
| Died | August 4, 2012 (aged 86) Penticton, British Columbia |
| Playing career | |
| 1948–1950 | Idaho |
| Position(s) | Back |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1952–1954 | Wallace HS (ID) (ass't) |
| 1955–1958 | Wallace HS (ID) |
| 1959–1961 | Lewiston HS (ID) |
| 1962–1964 | Idaho (ass't) |
| 1965–1972 | Oregon State (ass't) |
| 1973 | Saskatchewan (CFL) (ass't) |
| 1974–1977 | Winnipeg (CFL) |
| 1978 | Toronto (CFL) (ass't) |
| 1979 | Oregon State (ass't) |
| 1980 | Saskatchewan (CFL) (ass't) |
| 1981 | Hamilton (CFL) (ass't) |
| 1982–1983 | Hamilton (CFL) |
| 1984 | Edmonton (CFL) (ass't) |
| 1985 | Calgary (CFL) (interim) |
| Bud Riley | |
|---|---|
| Allegiance |
 United States
|
| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
|
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Edward Jones "Bud" Riley, Jr. (November 25, 1925 – August 4, 2012) was an American college football coach who served as an assistant coach for the University of Idaho and Oregon State University. He also spent 14 seasons in the Canadian Football League, most notably as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1974 to 1977 and as a front office executive for the Calgary Stampeders from 1985 to 1987. His oldest son is current Nebraska head coach Mike Riley.
Riley was born and raised in Guin, Alabama, a community in the western part of the state. His father died when he was 12, and he quit high school at age 17 during World War II to join the U.S. Navy. Following the war, he returned to western Alabama and later enrolled at nearby East Mississippi Junior College in Scooba.
His junior college football prowess in his early 20s led him to the attention of University of Idaho head coach Dixie Howell, a hall of fame player in the 1930s from Alabama, who was tipped off by a friend. Riley, at 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) and 155 lb (70 kg), informed Howell he was significantly larger than actually he was, which earned him an invitation to campus. Upon his arrival in Moscow in 1948, Howell wanted the undersized Riley run off; he had an assistant coach place Riley in a post-practice tackling drill with a much larger player, but Riley prevailed and stayed on the team.
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