Career
He served as head football coach at North Texas State Teachers College, now the University of North Texas, from 1925 to 1928, compiling a record of 17–18–3. Reid was also the head basketball coach at North Texas State Teachers from 1924 to 1929 and at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University from 1929 to 1935, amassing a career college basketball record of 144–84. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at North Texas State Teachers College from 1925 to 1926, tallying a mark 7–11.
He died of prostate cancer in 1963.
He is interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Woodville.