Branch Bocock
Bocock pictured in Yackety Yack 1912, North Carolina yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 10, 1884 Shenandoah, Virginia |
| Died | May 25, 1946 (aged 62) Blackstone, Virginia |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1903–1906 | Georgetown |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1908 | Georgia |
| 1909–1910 | VPI |
| 1911 | North Carolina |
| 1912–1915 | VPI |
| 1920–1921 | LSU |
| 1925–1926 | South Carolina |
| 1928–1930 | William & Mary |
| 1936–1938 | William & Mary |
| Basketball | |
| 1909–1911 | VPI |
| 1913–1915 | VPI |
| 1920–1921 | LSU |
| 1924–1927 | South Carolina |
| Baseball | |
| 1910–1911 | VPI |
| 1914 | VPI |
| 1922–1923 | LSU |
| 1925–1927 | South Carolina |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1909 | VPI |
| 1925–1926 | South Carolina |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 98–55–9 (football) 109–33 (basketball) 70–54–2 (baseball) |
James Branch Bocock (March 10, 1884 – May 25, 1946) was an American football, basketball, and 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 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 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 record of 70–54–2.
Bocock was a quarterback for the Georgetown Hoyas.
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.
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