Ernest Alley

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Ernest Alley
Sport(s)	Football, track
Biographical details
Born	c. 1904
Died	August 24, 1971 (aged 67) Nashville, Tennessee
Playing career
Football 1927–1928	Tennessee
Position(s)	End
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1939 1940 1943 1944–1945 Track 1949–1971	Middle Tennessee Teachers Vanderbilt (ends) Vanderbilt Auburn (assistant) Vanderbilt
Head coaching record
Overall	6–6–1 (football)

Ernest Hayes "Herc" Alley (c. 1904 – August 24, 1971) was an American football player, track athlete, and coach. He served as head men's track coach at Vanderbilt University from 1949 to 1971. Alley was also the head football coach at Middle Tennessee Teachers College—now Middle Tennessee State University—in 1939 and at Vanderbilt in 1943, compiling a career college football record of 6–6–1. He played football as an end at the University of Tennessee from 1927 to 1928. Alley died of a heart attack at the age of 67 on August 24, 1971 at his home in Nashville, Tennessee.^[1]^[2]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference
Middle Tennessee Teachers Blue Raiders (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1939)
1939	Middle Tennessee Teachers	1–6–1
Vanderbilt:		1–6–1
Vanderbilt Commodores (Southeastern Conference) (1943)
1943	Vanderbilt	5–0	0–0
Vanderbilt:		5–0	0–0
Total:		6–6–1

References

↑ UPI (August 24, 1971). ""Herc" Allen Dies". The Times-News. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
↑ AP (August 25, 1971). "Track Coach Dies". Youngstown Vindicator. Retrieved December 27, 2011.

External links

Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders head football coaches

L. T. "Mutt" Weber (1911–1912)
Alfred B. Miles (1913–1916)
Johnny Floyd (1917)
Unknown (1918)
Alfred B. Miles (1919–1923)
Guy Stephenson (1924–1925)
Frank A. Faulkinberry (1926–1932)
E. M. Waller (1933–1934)
Johnny Floyd (1935–1938)
Ernest Alley (1939)
E. W. Midgett (1940–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
E. W. Midgett (1946)
Charles M. Murphy (1947–1968)
Donald E. Fuoss (1969)
Bill Peck (1970–1974)
Ben Hurt (1975–1978)
James F. Donnelly (1979–1998)
Andy McCollum (1999–2005)
Rick Stockstill (2006– )

Vanderbilt Commodores head football coaches

Elliott Jones (1890–1892)
W. J. Keller (1893)
Henry Worth Thornton (1894)
C. L. Upton (1895)
R. G. Acton (1896–1898)
James L. Crane (1899–1900)
Walter H. Watkins (1901–1902)
James H. Henry (1903)
Dan McGugin (1904–1917)
Ray Morrison (1918)
Dan McGugin (1919–1934)
Ray Morrison (1935–1939)
Henry Russell Sanders (1940–1942)
Ernest Alley (1943)
Doby Bartling (1944–1945)
Henry Russell Sanders (1946–1948)
Bill Edwards (1949–1952)
Arthur Guepe (1953–1962)
John Green (1963–1966)
Bill Pace (1967–1972)
Steve Sloan (1973–1974)
Fred Pancoast (1975–1978)
George MacIntyre (1979–1985)
Watson Brown (1986–1990)
Gerry DiNardo (1991–1994)
Rod Dowhower (1995–1996)
Woody Widenhofer (1997–2001)
Bobby Johnson (2002–2009)
Robbie Caldwell (2010)
James Franklin (2011–2013)
Derek Mason (2014– )

Persondata
Name	Alley, Ernest
Alternative names	Alley, Ernest Hayes; Alley, E. H.; Alley, Herc
Short description	American football player and coach, track and field athlete and coach
Date of birth	c. 1904
Place of birth
Date of death	August 24, 1971
Place of death	Nashville, Tennessee

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