Bob Tracy | |
Birth Date: | 17 October 1928 |
Death Place: | Arizona, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Team2: | Northern State |
Player Sport3: | Track |
Player Years4: | c. 1950–1954 |
Player Team4: | Northern State |
Player Positions: | Center, guard, tackle (football) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1954 |
Coach Team2: | Beresford HS (SD) |
Coach Years3: | 1955–1956 |
Coach Team3: | Northern State (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 1957–1962 |
Coach Team4: | Dickinson State |
Coach Years5: | 1963 |
Coach Team5: | St. Cloud (line) |
Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
Coach Years7: | 1962–1963 |
Coach Team7: | Dickinson State |
Coach Sport8: | Track |
Coach Years9: | 1955–1957 |
Coach Team10: | Northern State |
Coach Years11: | 1957–1963 |
Coach Team11: | Dickinson State |
Coach Years12: | 1963–1968 |
Coach Team12: | St. Cloud |
Coach Years13: | c. 1970 |
Coach Team13: | Minnesota (assistant) |
Coach Years14: | 1972–1976 |
Coach Team14: | Hawaii |
Coach Sport15: | Cross country |
Coach Years16: | 1964–1967 |
Coach Team16: | St. Cloud |
Overall Record: | 25–18–1 (college football) 12–10 (college basketball) |
Championships: | Football 2 NDIC (1958, 1960) |
Robert Anthony Tracy (October 17, 1928 – May 10, 2008) was an American football, basketball, track, and cross country coach. He was the eighth head football coach at Dickinson State College—now known as Dickinson State University–in Dickinson, North Dakota, serving for six seasons, from 1957 to 1962, and compiling a record of 25–18–1.[1]
A native of Waubay, South Dakota, competed in football and track at Northern State Teachers College—now known as Northern State University—in Aberdeen, South Dakota, before graduating in 1954. He was a center, guard, tackle on the football team and a weightman on the track team. Tracy was the head track coach and an assistant football coach at Northern State for two years before he was appointed head coach in football and track at Dickinson State in May 1957.[2] He was also the head basketball coach at Dickinson State for one season, in 1962–63, tallying a mark of 12–10. Tracy resigned from Dickinson State in May 1963 to take a job as head track coach and line coach for the football team at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.[3]
After working as an assistant track coach at the University of Minnesota, Tracy was appointed an assistant professor of physical education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1971.[4] He was head coach of the men's and women's track teams at Hawaii from 1972 to 1976. There he mentored Terry Albritton when Albritton set the world record in shot put in 1976.[5]