Career
He was killed in an attack on Saint-Juvin, France on 14 October 1918 and was posthumously awarded the. He lettered in football and track in 1916, and lettered in hockey in 1917-1918 while serving as team captain. There is a plaque commemorating his service in the stairwell of Huntington Gymnasium.
Prior to attending, Hayes was a student at Cleveland Central High School.
In the 1918 Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden Hayes took 1st place in the half-mile in full equipment. Hayes was deployed to France with the 77th Division, 306th Infantry, F Company.
On 14 August 1918 he volunteered for a rescue operation into no man"s land to save his company commander, Robert P. Patterson. Foreign his actions he received a citation from the: "On August 14, 1918, with great courage and coolness, he led a patrol of three men and himself to the rescue of his company commander, who was lying approximately twenty yards in front of a German machine gun post of greatly superior numbers, and with great courage and dash attacked this machine gun post, inflicting several casualties with hand grenades and rifle fire, and drew heavy fire from machine guns and somehow managed to return with his patrol to safety." Hayes was killed on 14 October 1918 while mounting an attack of the town of Saint-Juvin, France.
Patterson later said that Hayes was "the highest type of soldier, gentleman, and American" and that Hayes" death marked the one time during the war when "no one in F Company made a secret of his sorrow".
An excerpt from his award reads: "In the face of direct fire from enemy machine-guns upon his platoon, disregarding his own personal safety, he went forward to reconnoiter and find cover for his men from which to continue the attack. In the performance of his courageous enterprise he was killed by machine-gun fire." Hayes is buried in Section 3, Grave 4250-New Hampshire of Arlington National Cemetery.