Posted on 12/18/2019 3:36:16 AM PST by C19fan
Hayden Fry, the Texan who revived Iowa football and became a Hawkeye State institution over two decades as a Big Ten coach, has died. He was 90.
Fry's family announced through the University of Iowa that the former coach died Tuesday with his family at his side after a long battle with cancer. He had been living in the Dallas area with his wife, Shirley. "We are proud to know that our father's life had a positive influence on so many people, the players, the coaches, and the fans who played for, worked with, and supported his long and successful coaching career," the family said in a statement. "His legend will live forever with the people he touched and inspired, and the programs he led to greater heights."
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RIP Coach Fry
Iowa Alumni here from the 1980’s - He has always been legend.
RIP Coach.
RIP Coach!
Coach Fry was the quarterback for Odessa High School when they won the state championship. The original “Friday Night Lights”.
Scratch where it itches, coach.
RIP.
He always was respected in Texas during Southwest Conference days
There’ll be a high porch picnic in heaven, with plenty of Hokey Pokey.
Alumni here class of 1961. I was blessed being there during the tenure of the great coach Forest Evashevski. Coach Frye superbly assumed the mantle from Evy. RIP Marine and Semper Fi.
Reading Coach Fry’s wiki notes Roy Orbison was one of his students when he was coach/history teacher in Odessa. An amazing career. Rest in peace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_Fry
RIP.
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