Hayden Fry
Hayden Fry
John Hayden Fryis a former American football player and coach. He played college football for Baylor University. He served as the head coach at Southern Methodist University, North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas, and the University of Iowa, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 February 1929
CityEastland, TX
CountryUnited States of America
We're going to foul up once in a while, but people need to know we don't do it on purpose. Playing the game with integrity-that's what it's all about.
I'll be here in my home with three big screens, ... I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.
It's been fun to get the reaction of visiting coaches to the color of their locker room. Most don't notice it, but those that do are in trouble. . . . When I talk to an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.
I've felt sorry for young people who didn't have an opportunity to play football, because I know what the game can offer.
I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.
When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
I don't want our guys to think it's a matter of life and death. I'd hate to think that the game has reached that point.
Larry makes a great play and nearly gets the hand off,
We had had one of the biggest economic droughts that the midlands had ever seen, and the farmers needed help. It didn't cost anything much to put the decals on the helmets, but it did a lot of good in directing publicity to the problem. There were stories in many national newspapers and sports magazines.
Sports is such a great vehicle to promote and bring recognition to not only the whole university, but the state.
If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.
He had a good arm, but in their offense, they just didn't throw the ball that much, ... Everything he did was a great surprise to us, I'll put it that way. His first year he proved himself and he got better and better every year.
When he was a member of our football team, he was a very fine athlete, had a wonderful personality, very outgoing - just became a member of the family.