Branch Bocock

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Branch Bocock

Title Head coach
College South Carolina, Virginia Tech
Sport Football
Career highlights
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1908-1908
1920-1921
1911-1911
1925-1926		 Georgia
LSU
North Carolina
South Carolina

Branch Bocock was the head football coach for the University of Georgia (1908), Virginia Tech (1909-1910, 1912-1915), the University of North Carolina (1911), Louisiana State University (1920-1921), University of South Carolina (1925-1926) and William & Mary (1928-1930, 1936-1938). His career record as a head coach was 98-55-9. Bocock also served as the head basketball and baseball coaches for Louisiana State University.

Although official records only give Bocock credit for coaching the Georgia Bulldogs football team in 1908, he also coached the last three games of Georgia's 1907 season. In 1907, Georgia head football coach Bull Whitney was caught in a controversy over the revelation that there were at least four ringers (paid professionals) on the Georgia and Georgia Tech teams during the game played that year. As a result, Georgia removed all known ringers from its team and Whitney was forced to resign, handing the coaching duties over to Bocock for the last three games. Georgia was 2-1 in those three games.

At Virginia Tech, Bocock was the team's first true professional coach and the first head football coach to receive a full-time salary.

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[edit] Head Coaching Record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl Coaches# AP°
Georgia (Independent) (1908 – 1908)
1908 Georgia 5-2-1
Georgia: 5-2-1
1909 Virginia Tech 6-1-0
1910 Virginia Tech 6-2-0
1912 Virginia Tech 5-4-0
1913 Virginia Tech 7-1-1
1914 Virginia Tech 6-2-1
1915 Virginia Tech 4-4-0
Virginia Tech: 34-14-2
1911 North Carolina 6-1-1
North Carolina: 6-1-1
1920 LSU 5-3-1
1921 LSU 6-1-1
LSU: 11-4-2
1925 South Carolina 7-3-0
1926 South Carolina 6-4-0
South Carolina: 13-7-0
1928 William & Mary 6-3-2
1929 William & Mary 8-2-0
1930 William & Mary 7-2-1
1936 William & Mary 1-8-0
1937 William & Mary 4-5-0
1938 William & Mary 3-7-0
William & Mary: 29-27-3
Total: 87-54-8
†Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season.

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Georgia Bulldogs Head Football Coaches

Herty • Brown • Winston • Warner • McCarthy • Saussy • Jones • Reynolds • Dickinson • Barnard • Whitney • Bocock • Coulter & Dobson • Cunningham • Stegeman • Woodruff • Mehre • Hunt • Butts • Griffith • Dooley • Goff • Donnan • Richt
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Virginia Tech Hokies Head Basketball Coaches

Brown • Bocock • Keesling • Hughes • Bocock  • Sanborn • Bernier • Younger • Cubbage • Blair • Redd • Moore • Randall • Warren • Rhodes • Proctor • Younger • McEver • Proctor • Laird • Noe • Matthews • Shannon • DeVoe • Moir • Allen • Foster • Hussey • Stokes • Greenberg
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Virginia Tech Hokies Head Football Coaches

Smyth • Massie • Jones • Firth • Ingles • Morrison • Davis • Morrison • Brown • Lueder • O'Connor • Miles • Williams • Brown • Bocock • Reiss • Ingersell • Bernier • Sutton • Cubbage • Gustafson • Neale • Redd • Kitts • Tilson • McEver • McNeish • Learned • Moseley • Claiborne • Coffey • Sharpe • Dooley • Beamer
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LSU Tigers Head Football Coaches

Coates • Simmons • Jeardeau • Chavanne • Gregg • Boreland • Killian • Wingard • Pritchard • Mayhew • Dwyer • McDonald • Bible • Sutton • Pray • Bocock • Donahue • Cohen • Jones • Moore • Tinsley • Dietzel • McClendon • Rein • Stovall • Arnsparger • Archer • Hallman • DiNardo • Hunter (interim) • Saban • Miles
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LSU Tigers Head Basketball Coaches

Wingard • Mayhew • Long • Stroud • Edmonds • Stroud • Bocock • Gormley • Ducote • Wilson • Rabenhorst • Morey • Fatheree • Swanson • Rabenhorst • McCreary • Truitt • Maravich • Brown • Brady • Pierre • Johnson
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LSU Tigers Head Baseball Coaches
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North Carolina Tar Heels Head Football Coaches

Cowan • Irvine • Trenchard • Johnston • Reynolds • Jenkins • Olcott • Brown • Warner • Keinholz • Lamson • Green • Brides • Bocock • Martin • Campbell • Fuller • Fetzer • Collins • Snavely • Wolf • Tatum • Young • McEver • Barclay • Hickey • Dooley • Crum • Brown • Torbush • Bunting • Davis
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South Carolina Gamecocks Head Basketball Coaches

Brown • Schofield • Driver • Blackburn • Hill • Farrell • Foster • Metzger • Sims • Crawford • Bocock • Stoney • Norman • Petoskey • Johnson • Enright • Findley • McMillan • Johnson • Hambrick • Stevens • Noe • Morrison • McGuire • Foster • Felton • Newton • Fogler • Odom • Horn
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South Carolina Gamecocks Head Football Coaches

Whaley • Murphy • Wertenbaker • Hunt • Dickson • Williams • Benet • McKay • Neff • Edgerton • Warren • Foster • Dobson • Metzger • Bocock • Lightsey • Laval • McCallister • Enright • Moran • Newton • McMillan • Giese • Bass • Dietzel • Carlen • Bell • Morrison • Woods • Scott • Holtz • Spurrier
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William & Mary Tribe Head Football Coaches

Wright • Armstrong • King • Burke • Davall • Blanchard • Withers • Barry • O'Hearn • W. Young • Draper • Hubbard • H. Young • Geddy • Driver • Fincher • Ingram • Tasker • Bocock • Kellison • Dowler • Bocock • Voyles • McCray • Bass • Freeman • Drewer • Levy • Holtz • Root • Laycock
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