Career
His coaching record at Northeast Louisiana State was 15 wins, 22 losses, and 1 tie. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him eighth at University of Louisiana at Monroe in total wins and fifth at University of Louisiana at Monroe in winning percentage (408). He died in 1958 in a hospital where he had been undergoing surgery for ulcers.
He was 44.
In 2007 Payne was inducted into the ULM Sports Hall of Fame.
