Bill Dooley
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1934 Mobile, Alabama |
| Died |
(aged 82) Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1953–1955 | Mississippi State |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1957–1960 | Mississippi State (freshmen, asst. OL) |
| 1963 | Mississippi State (OL) |
| 1964–1966 | Georgia (assistant) |
| 1967–1977 | North Carolina |
| 1978–1986 | Virginia Tech |
| 1987–1992 | Wake Forest |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1978–1986 | Virginia Tech |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 162–126–5 |
| Bowls | 3–7 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 ACC (1971–1972, 1977) | |
| Awards | |
| 3x ACC Coach of the Year (1971, 1987, 1992) | |
Bill Dooley (1934 – August 9, 2016) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1967–1977), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1978–1986), and Wake Forest University (1987–1992), compiling a career college football record of 162–126–5.
Dooley was born in 1934, in Mobile, Alabama. There, he attended the McGill Institute, administered by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart. Dooley then attended Perkinston Junior College in Perkinston, Mississippi from 1952 to 1953. In 1953, he moved on to Mississippi State University and graduated in 1956, where he was an all-SEC lineman for the Maroons/Bulldogs. Dooley's brother is former University of Georgia head football coach Vince Dooley, and the two went against each other's teams in the 1971 Gator Bowl. His nephew, Derek Dooley is the former head football coach at the University of Tennessee. In 1962, he married Christine Paolucci and had two sons, Jim and Bill; with his second wife, Marie Nance, he also had two sons, Sean and Ashton. Dooley lived in wilmington, North Carolina.
With the North Carolina Tar Heels, Dooley won three Atlantic Coast Conference titles, including the school's first outright conference championship in 1971. He left North Carolina as the winningest coach in school history, since been passed by Dick Crum. He is still tied for second on the school's wins list, behind Mack Brown, and is still the school's longest-tenured head coach. He also achieved the school's first 11-win season in 1972. Only two other Tar Heel teams have ever won 11 games.
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