# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hayden-fry
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:58:12.729Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hayden-fry"
name: "Hayden Fry"
slug: "hayden-fry"
description: "John Hayden Fry was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 1962 to 1972, North Texas State University—now known as the University of North Texas—from 1973 to 1978, and the University of Iowa from 1979 to 1998, compiling a career coaching record of 232–178–10. Fry played in college at Baylor University. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2003."
tagline: "American football player and coach, college athletics administrator (1929-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hayden_Fry_(2009).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1929-02-28"
deathDate: "2019-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.57
  momentum:             0.8342857142857144
  historical:           4.468256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "هايدن فراي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "هايدن فراى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_Fry"
    title: "Hayden Fry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_Fry"
    title: "Hayden Fry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_Fry"
    title: "Hayden Fry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5686318"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump