Reed Green | |
Birth Date: | 12 December 1911 |
Birth Place: | Leakesville, Mississippi, U.S. |
Death Place: | Mobile, Alabama, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1930–1933 |
Player Team2: | Mississippi State Teachers |
Player Sport3: | Basketball |
Player Years4: | 1930–1934 |
Player Team4: | Mississippi State Teachers |
Player Sport5: | Baseball |
Player Years6: | 1934 |
Player Team6: | Mississippi State Teachers |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1934 |
Coach Team2: | Mississippi State Teachers (freshmen) |
Coach Years3: | 1935–1936 |
Coach Team3: | Mississippi State Teachers (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 1937–1948 |
Coach Team4: | Mississippi State Teachers / Mississippi Southern |
Coach Sport5: | Basketball |
Coach Years6: | 1934–1946 |
Coach Team6: | Mississippi State Teachers / Mississippi Southern |
Coach Sport7: | Baseball |
Coach Years8: | 1947 |
Coach Team8: | Mississippi Southern |
Admin Years1: | 1949–1973 |
Admin Team1: | Mississippi Southern / Southern Miss |
Overall Record: | 59–20–4 (football) 24–37 (basketball) 9–4 (baseball) |
Bowl Record: | 1–0 |
Championships: | Football 1 Gulf States (1948) |
Bernard Reed Green (December 12, 1911 – February 1, 2002) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Southern Mississippi from 1937 to 1948, compiling a record of 59–20–4. Green's winning percentage of .735 is the best of any head coach in the history of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles football program. Born in Leakesville, Mississippi, he attended the University of Southern Mississippi from 1930 until 1933 and lettered on the football, basketball, and baseball teams. He became the head coach of Southern Miss when Allison Pooley Hubert left to become the head coach at Virginia Military Institute. Green became the athletic director at Southern Miss in 1949 and held that position until 1973.[1] He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1966. Green died in 2002.[2]
Reed Green Coliseum, home of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles basketball and volleyball teams, is named for him.[3]