Bob Tracy Explained

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]

Head coaching record

College football

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DeLassus. David. Dickinson State Coaching Records. College Football Data Warehouse. October 26, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100727025719/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/naia/dac10/dickinson_state/coaching_records.php. July 27, 2010.
  2. News: . Bob Tracey Named Dickinson Coach . . . . May 3, 1957 . 17 . November 13, 2020 . .
  3. News: . Tracey Leaves DSTC For St. Cloud Post . . . May 24, 1963 . 14 . November 13, 2020 . .
  4. News: . Bob Tracey Leaves Post . . . July 25, 1971 . 2D . November 13, 2020 . .
  5. News: Timmons . Grady . Track Coach Levels Blast at UH . . . July 25, 1971 . G1 . November 13, 2020 . .