Frank Mills Dobson
(January 10, 1885 ? December 1, 1956) was an
American football
,
basketball
, and
baseball
coach. He served as the head football coach at the
University of Georgia
(1909, with
James Coulter
),
Clemson University
(1910?1912), the
University of Richmond
(1913?1917, 1919?1933), the
University of South Carolina
(1918), the
University of Maryland
(1936?1939), and
The Apprentice School
(1940?1948), compiling a career record of 137?142?24. Dobson was also the head basketball coach at Clemson (1911?1913) and Richmond (1912?1917, 1919?1933) and the head baseball coach at Clemson (1911?1913) and Richmond (1915?1933).
Coaching career
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Georgia Tech and Georgia
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A native of
Roanoke, Virginia
, Dobson was an assistant under legendary
Georgia Tech
head coach
John Heisman
.
In 1909, Dobson moved to Georgia Tech's arch-rival,
Georgia
. There, the new head coach,
James Coulter
, had no prior coaching experience. Dobson was hired as a co-coach and added new trick plays in an attempt to energize the offense. Still the team finished with a record of 2?4?2.
[1]
Clemson
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Dobson moved on to
Clemson University
for the 1910 season, where he coached not only football, but also basketball and baseball.
[2]
His overall record with the Clemson football team was 11?12?1.
Richmond and South Carolina
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Dobson then moved to the
University of Richmond
, where he was athletic director and football, baseball, and basketball coach from 1913 to 1933, with one exception: in the abbreviated postwar season of 1918, rather than coaching the Richmond football team, he took over the
South Carolina Gamecocks
and led them to a record of 2?1?1. Dobson's overall football record at Richmond was 79?78?18, his baseball record was 153?112, and his basketball record was 153?106. Dobson was posthumously elected to the University of Richmond Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978.
Maryland
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In 1935, Dobson became an assistant at
Maryland
under head coach
Jack Faber
.
[3]
The following season, he was promoted to head coach and served in that position through 1939. Dobson amassed an 18?21 record at Maryland.
Apprentice
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Dobson finished his career as the 11th head football coach at
The Apprentice School
in
Newport News, Virginia
and he held that position for nine seasons, from 1940 until 1948. His coaching record at Apprentice was 25?26?2. A highlight at Apprentice was a 7?6 upset of the
Virginia
in 1943.
[4]
Death
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Dobson died on December 1, 1956, in
Carlisle, Indiana
. He was found dead in bed after suffering a coronary occlusion.
[5]
Head coaching record
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See also
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References
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- ^
Official UGA History: Former Head Coaches
[
permanent dead link
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, GeorgiaDogs.com, retrieved January 15, 2009.
- ^
Former Head Coaches
, Georgia Dogs website
[
permanent dead link
]
- ^
The Terrapin
, p. 144, University of Maryland, 1936.
- ^
College Football Data Warehouse
Archived
May 25, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine
University of Virginia 1943 Football results
- ^
"Frank M. Dobson, Longtime Southern Grid Coach, Dies"
.
The Star Press
.
Muncie, Indiana
.
Associated Press
. December 2, 1956. p. 4-C
. Retrieved
November 28,
2018
– via
Newspapers.com
.
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