Hayden Fry
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 28, 1929 Eastland, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| 1947–1950 | Baylor |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1956–1958 | Odessa HS (TX) |
| 1959–1960 | Baylor (DB) |
| 1961 | Arkansas (QB/RB) |
| 1962–1972 | SMU |
| 1973–1978 | North Texas State |
| 1979–1998 | Iowa |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1964–1972 | SMU |
| 1973–1978 | North Texas State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 232–178–10 |
| Bowls | 7–9–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 SWC (1966) 1 MVC (1973) 3 Big Ten (1981, 1985, 1990) |
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| Awards | |
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Sporting News College Football COY (1981) Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (2005) SWC Coach of the Year (1963) MVC Coach of the Year (1973) 3× Big Ten Coach of the Year (1981, 1990–1991) |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2003 (profile) |
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John Hayden Fry (born February 28, 1929) is a former American football player and coach. He played college football for Baylor University. He served as the head coach at Southern Methodist University (1962–1972), North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas (1973–1978), and the University of Iowa (1979–1998), compiling a career college football record of 232–178–10. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2003.
Born in Eastland, Texas, Hayden Fry was descended from one of the Texas First Families; his great-great-grandfather fought beside General Sam Houston in the Texas War of Independence against Santa Anna in the battle of San Jacinto and in the Mexican War. Fry's family moved to Odessa, Texas, when he was eight years old.
Fry worked multiple jobs as a child to help his family through the Great Depression. He also played sports, partly to stay out of trouble. Hayden played basketball, football, and track, but he most loved and was most successful at football, and Odessa was a football town.
When Fry played safety and quarterback for Odessa High School in the 1940s, their stands routinely had sellout crowds. In Fry's senior year, Odessa won 14 straight games, scoring almost 400 points and allowing about 50. Odessa did not commit a single turnover all season. The Texas state playoffs placed every school into a single bracket. At the end of the year, Hayden Fry quarterbacked Odessa to the Texas state high school championship in 1946.
Fry then played at Baylor University from 1947 to 1950. Baylor had a 26–13–2 record during Fry's four years there. Fry started a few games as an upperclassman at Baylor, but he could never win the full-time starting quarterback job. He graduated from Baylor with a degree in psychology in 1951.
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