Branch Bocock

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James Branch Bocock (March 10, 1884 – May 25, 1946) was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Georgia (1908), Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI)—now known as Virginia Tech (1909–1910, 1912–1915), the University of North Carolina (1911), Louisiana State University (1920–1921), the University of South Carolina (1925–1926), and The College of William & Mary (1928–1930, 1936–1938), compiling a career college football head coaching record of 98–55–9. Bocock was also the head basketball coach at VPI (1909–1911, 1913–1915), LSU (1920–1921), and South Carolina (1924–1927), tallying a career college basketball head coaching mark of 109–33, and the head baseball coach at VPI (1910–1911, 1914), LSU (1922–1923), and South Carolina (1925–1927), amassing a career college baseball head coaching record of 70–54–2.

Early years

Bocock was a quarterback for the Georgetown Hoyas.[1]

Coaching career

Although official records give Bocock credit only 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 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 VPI, Bocock was the team's first true professional coach and the first head football coach to receive a full-time salary.[2]

Later life

Bocock died at the age of 62 on May 25, 1946, at his home near Blackstone, Virginia.[3]

Head coaching record

Football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Georgia Bulldogs (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1908)
1908 Georgia 5–2–1 3–2–1 6th
Georgia: 5–2–1 3–2–1
VPI (Independent) (1909–1910)
1909 VPI 6–1
1910 VPI 6–2
North Carolina Tar Heels (Independent) (1911)
1911 North Carolina 6–1–1
North Carolina: 6–1–1
VPI Gobblers (South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1912–1915)
1912 VPI 5–4
1913 VPI 7–1–1
1914 VPI 6–2–1
1915 VPI 4–4
VPI: 34–14–2
LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1920–1921)
1920 LSU 5–3–1 1–3
1921 LSU 6–1–1 2–1–1
LSU: 11–4–2 3–4–1
South Carolina Gamecocks (Southern Conference) (1925–1926)
1925 South Carolina 7–3 2–2 T–10th
1926 South Carolina 6–4 4–2 T–4th
South Carolina: 13–7 6–4
William & Mary Indians (Virginia Conference) (1928–1930)
1928 William & Mary 6–3–2 5–1 2nd
1929 William & Mary 8–2 5–0 1st
1930 William & Mary 7–2–1 5–0 1st
William & Mary Indians (Southern Conference) (1936–1938)
1936 William & Mary 1–8 0–5 16th
1937 William & Mary 4–5 1–3 13th
1938 William & Mary 3–7 0–4 15th
William & Mary: 29–27–3 16–13
Total: 98–55–9
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

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Basketball

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Baseball

Template:CBB Yearly Record Start Template:CBB Yearly Record Subhead |- | 1910 | VPI 

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|- | 1911 | VPI 

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Template:CBB Yearly Record Subhead |- | 1914 | VPI 

             | 15–4–1 ||  || ||

|- style="background:#fafafa; border-top: 2px solid #aaaaaa;" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | VPI: | 38–18–2 (Template:Winning percentage) || || colspan="5" |

Template:CBB Yearly Record Subhead |- | 1922 | LSU 

             | 7–6 ||  || ||

|- | 1923 | LSU 

             | 8–9–2 ||  || ||

|- style="background:#fafafa; border-top: 2px solid #aaaaaa;" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | LSU: | 15–15–2 (Template:Winning percentage) || || colspan="5" |

Template:CBB Yearly Record Subhead |- | 1925 | South Carolina 

             | 4–9 ||  || ||

|- | 1926 | South Carolina 

             | 6–4 ||  || ||

|- | 1927 | South Carolina 

             | 7–8 ||  || ||

|- style="background:#fafafa; border-top: 2px solid #aaaaaa;" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | South Carolina: | 17–21 (Template:Winning percentage) || || colspan="5" |

|- style="background:#dddddd" | colspan="2" style="text-align:center" | Total: || 70–54–4 (Template:Winning percentage) ||colspan="7" | |} [6]

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Reed, Thomas Walter (1949). Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. History of the University of Georgia; Chapter XVII: Athletics at the University from the Beginning Through 1947 imprint pages 3493

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