Loyd Hayden Riley was an American college basketball coach.
14 Facts About Hayden Riley
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Hayden Riley was the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide for eight seasons during the 1960s, and the Tide's head baseball coach for ten seasons in the 1970s.
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Hayden Riley entered the US Navy in 1942 and was stationed at NAS Pensacola in the nearby Florida panhandle as a physical trainer.
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Hayden Riley earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in August 1948 and earned a master's degree in 1953.
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Just days after earning his degree, Hayden Riley was the head coach of baseball and basketball at Coffee High School in Florence.
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Hayden Riley stayed for a decade, and his basketball team won the state championship in 1951, with high finishes in other years.
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Hayden Riley was the head football coach at CHS for three seasons, beginning in 1955.
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Hayden Riley moved to the University of Alabama in 1958 as a football assistant to Bear Bryant Hayden was one of the Best recruiters and evaluation of talent.
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Hayden Riley had an unbelievable talent of remembering anybody's name and from his stent in the Navy knew people all over the nation which helped in the recruiting and assistant basketball coach under Eugene Lambert.
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When Lambert left in 1960, Hayden Riley was promoted to head basketball coach.
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Hayden Riley served in the athletic department at Alabama until 1982, then became commissioner of the Gulf South Conference from 1982 for two years.
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Hayden Riley suffered a stroke in 1987 and was confined to a wheelchair, and lived at the VA hospital in Tuscaloosa.
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Hayden Riley died of a heart attack in 1995 at age 73, and was buried in Tuscaloosa.
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Hayden Riley was married to the former Lauranne Kudrop of Greenville and they had three children, two sons and a daughter.