Head was inducted in the inaugural class at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.

[1] In 1948 he accepted a position as head coach of the Nashville Business College (NBC) team.

One of his All-American players, Doris Rogers, remembers his lesson,"If you keep practicing the same thing wrong you will never get any better.

The USA would lose one game to Brazil, but ended up with a 5–1 record and the gold medal to take the first World Championship title.

The title game was against the unbeaten USSR, the first time the two squads had met in a major competition.

The USA team held the Brazilians scoreless for eleven minutes, and cruised to an easy 59–43 win to take the gold medal and the 1963 Pan American Championship.

[7] Head was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach as part of the first class of Inductees in 1999.