Memorials

The Ed Hughes Football League was founded by a group of University of Houston alumni as a basic scoring league with nine original franchises in 1980. After a year of weekly winner-take-all, we began using a head-to-head schedule in 1981. We are among the oldest continuous leagues in the U.S. Our league was named in honor of former Houston Oilers head coach Ed Hughes. Coach Hughes struggled through a 4-9-1 season with the Oilers in 1971, but he went on to jobs with the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys. He earned a Super Bowl ring as offensive coordinator of the Bears in 1986 before retiring in 1990. He had also won two NFL Championships as a defensive back with the NY Giants in the 1950s. Ed Hughes died on June 23, 2000. We have a tribute page for Coach Hughes on here on the blog site.