Ray Alborn

Ray Alborn
Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	(1938-12-23) December 23, 1938
Playing career
1959–1961	Rice
Position(s)	Defensive tackle
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1983 1984–1985 1986–1989 1998–2001	Rice Houston Gamblers (DL) Lamar Lamar Consolidated HS (TX)
Head coaching record
Overall	26–83 (college)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Ray Alborn (born December 23, 1938) is a former American football player and coach. He served as head football coach at Rice University from 1978 to 1983 and at Lamar University from 1986 to 1989, compiling a career college football record of 26–83.

While coaching at his alma mater, Rice, Alborn compiled a 13–53 record overall. He was fired after the 1983 season and soon after became defensive line coach for the USFL's Houston Gamblers. In 1986, Alborn was hired as head coach at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He was released from his contract in 1990 when Lamar chose to discontinue the school's football program.^[1]

He later served as head coach at Lamar Consolidated High School before retiring in 2002.

On March 2, 2010, Alborn was elected mayor of Ruidoso, New Mexico.^[2]

Head coaching record

College

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Rice Owls (Southwest Conference) (1978–1983)
1978	Rice	2–9	2–6	8th
1979	Rice	1–10	0–8	9th
1980	Rice	5–6	3–5	T–6th
1981	Rice	4–7	3–5	T–6th
1982	Rice	0–11	0–8	9th
1983	Rice	1–10	0–8	9th
Rice:		13–53	8–40
Lamar Cardinals (Southland Conference) (1986)
1986	Lamar	2–9	0–5	6th
Lamar Cardinals (NCAA Division I-AA Independent) (1987–1989)
1987	Lamar	3–8
1988	Lamar	3–8
1989	Lamar	5–5
Lamar:		13–30	0–5
Total:		26–83
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

External links

Ray Alborn at the College Football Data Warehouse

Rice Owls head football coaches

Phillip Arbuckle (1912–1917)
John Anderson (1918)
Phillip Arbuckle (1919–1923)
John Heisman (1924–1927)
Claude Rothgeb (1928)
Jack Meagher (1929–1933)
James Kitts (1934–1939)
Jess Neely (1940–1966)
Bo Hagan (1967–1970)
Bill Peterson (1971)
Al Conover (1972–1975)
Homer Rice (1976–1977)
Ray Alborn (1978–1983)
Watson Brown (1984–1985)
Jerry Berndt (1986–1988)
Fred Goldsmith (1989–1993)
Ken Hatfield (1994–2005)
Todd Graham (2006)
David Bailiff (2007– )

Lamar Cardinals head football coaches

John E. Gray (1932–1939) R.M. "Monk" Hodgkiss (1940–1941) Ted Jeffries (1944–1946) Stan Lambert (1951–1952) James B. Higgins (1953–1962) Vernon Glass (1963–1975) Bob Frederick (1976–1978) Larry Kennan (1979–1981) Ken Stephens (1982–1985) Ray Alborn (1986–1989) No team (1990–2009) Ray Woodard (2010– )