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
When I came to Iowa, we had to change everything that was associated with a long-held losing mentality. We had to change the total environment-from the players' conduct downtown, from their record of class attendance, from their way of dealing with people. We had to work with the total individual athlete and reconstruct his values and image.
If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.
Everybody in the country was watching. There were so many different things that took place that made it a special evening.
Every season has its own personality, ... In 2002, internally we felt very good about that team, and the way it turned out was not a total shock. The last two years were a little different, and last year may have been one for the books. It will be an interesting race, and hopefully we'll be right in it ... but certainly, a lot of things can happen between now and September, or now and November.
Sports is such a great vehicle to promote and bring recognition to not only the whole university, but the state.
Larry makes a great play and nearly gets the hand off,
I didn't have any idea what happened to Ivory. I assumed he went back to California.
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.
He was a tremendous person, a super great guy and a heck of a coach.
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.
(Having a proven winner returning at quarterback) makes you feel very confident about your offense, ... But the thing that offsets that confidence is the fact that as a coach you're always scared to death that your number one quarterback, who is really outstanding, is going to become injured. Normally, the drop-off to number two is pretty big because they are so good that it's pretty hard for the number two to fill their shoes.
He was the one that didn't give us a touchdown, ... He didn't officiate for us again.
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.
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.