July 15, 2003

Lofton Clinton Greene

July 15, 2003
High School Basketball Coach
Basketball Coach River Rouge (41 years)
Won over 700 games
12x State Champion
National High School Hall of Fame
Michigan High School Coaches Association
Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan

Lofton Clinton Greene

High School Basketball Coach - River Rouge (1943 – 1984)

Lofton Greene was born in Barlow, Kentucky moving to Jackson, Michigan at the age of nine and graduating from Jackson High School. He went on to play basketball and baseball at Western Kentucky University graduating in 1940. After graduation he embarked on a coaching career that would lead him to River Rouge High School where he would stay for forty-one years. During that time, he would compile a record of 739 – 231, becoming the all-time wins leader in Michigan high school history, winning twelve Class B State Championships with four additional runner-up finishes and a total of twenty-three District titles. He was named the National High School Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 1972 and was a two-time Michigan Coach of the Year. Lofton Greene was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame in 1986, the Michigan High School Coaches Association in 1968, the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan in 1985 and was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1974. He passed away on July 15, 2003 at 84 years of age.