Ernest Alley

Ernest Alley
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football, track
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	Middle Tennessee Teachers
1940	Vanderbilt (ends)
1943	Vanderbilt
1944–1945	Auburn (assistant)
Track
1949–1971	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

Football

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 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 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– )

Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders head baseball coaches

Max Souby (1912)
Alfred B. Miles (1913–1917)
No team (1918–1919)
Alfred B. Miles (1920–1924)
Guy Stephenson (1925–1926)
Frank Faulkinberry (1927–1932)
E. M. Waller (1933–1935)
Johnny "Red" Floyd (1936–1939)
Ernest Alley (1940)
Nance Jordan (1941–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Nance Jordan (1946)
Durwood Stowe (1947–1950)
Charles M. Murphy (1951)
No team (1952)
Charles M. Murphy (1953–1955)
No team (1956)
Buck Rolman (1957–1960)
Jack Deere (1961)
William Stokes (1962)
Ken Trickey (1963–1965)
Jimmy Earle (1966–1969)
Donald B. Clifton (1970)
A. H. Solomon (1971–1973)
John Stanford (1974–1987)
Steve Peterson (1988–2012)
Jim McGuire (2013– )

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– )

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