page_title: Lee Hedges
section_title: Coaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Lee Hedges / Coaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: Louisiana Tech football coaches of 1966, from left Joe Aillet, George Doherty, Jim Mize, Huey Williamson, E. J. Lewis, and Lee Hedges on the right.
context_page_description: Junior Lee Hedges is, with 217 victories, the winningest high school football coach in the history of Shreveport-Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana. In 2001, the Caddo Parish School Board renamed the football stadium at Captain Shreve High School in Hedges' honor. In 2010, he was elected to the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches.
context_section_description: After a stint in the United States Army, he finished work on his degree and in 1954 helped coach the LSU freshmen in football. He then began his coaching career at Fair Park High School as an assistant to F. H. Prendergast in 1955. That Fair Park team went to the state championship game and lost to Istrouma of Baton Rouge, led by running back Billy Cannon.
  The next season, 1956, Hedges became head coach at Byrd at age 26 and his first team also went to the state title game. Istrouma again was the opponent and won 14–7, the fourth of Istrouma's eight state titles in a 13-year period.
  After four years at Byrd (23–19–3 record), he moved to Woodlawn, then the newly established school in the southwest part of Shreveport.
  Following the rough first season, most of the team returned and the "Team Named Desire" won its first six games, most of them close and with fourth-quarter heroics. The team's 9-2 regular season, district title and state playoff berth earned Hedges several "Coach of the Year" honors.
  He was the state's "Coach of the Year" in 1965 when Bradshaw led a surprising team—with only one returning starter from the year before—to an 11–2–1 record. The district champions then won two playoff games before a 12–9 loss to Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in the state championship game.
  In his final five seasons at Woodlawn, Hedges' teams had records of 9–3, 9–2, 8–3–1, 10–2, 11–2–1 – a combined 47–12–2.
  His quarterbacks included Billy Laird, second-team All-State choice, then a star at Louisiana Tech and later a prominent college and high school coach; Trey Prather, an All-State choice who played at LSU for two years; and Bradshaw.
caption: 1966 Louisiana Tech University football coaches: from left, head coach Joe Aillet and assistants George Doherty, Jim Mize, A. Huey Williamson, E. J. Lewis, and Lee Hedges, who after that season returned to high school coaching at the newly opened Captain Shreve High School in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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