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Bert LaBrucherie, head coach at UCLA
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Bert LaBrucherie

Bert LaBrucherie went 42–⁠136–⁠2 as a head coach, 1945–⁠1967, at UCLA and Caltech.

19 seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1949–⁠67 at Caltech. They’re marked in the table.

Record
42–⁠136–⁠2 career
Seasons
23
Schools
2
Final AP top 10
1 season
Best season
1946 10–⁠1, No. 4

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1623 in 1946
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1945UCLA5–⁠45th
1946UCLA10–⁠11stRose Bowl L4
1947UCLA5–⁠44th
1948UCLA3–⁠78th
1949Caltech *0–⁠6–⁠15th
1950Caltech *1–⁠65th
1951Caltech *2–⁠5T–4th
1952Caltech *0–⁠75th
1953Caltech *0–⁠75th
1954Caltech *0–⁠75th
1955Caltech *1–⁠65th
1956Caltech *3–⁠55th
1957Caltech *4–⁠34th
1958Caltech *2–⁠5–⁠15th
1959Caltech *1–⁠75th
1960Caltech *0–⁠85th
1961Caltech *1–⁠6NA
1962Caltech *1–⁠66th
1963Caltech *2–⁠6NA
1964Caltech *1–⁠66th
1965Caltech *0–⁠76th
1966Caltech *0–⁠96th
1967Caltech *0–⁠86th

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.

Players he coached

Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams103–⁠7
Against top-10 teams52–⁠3
Against rivals135–⁠8
Conference games2615–⁠11
Bowls and playoffs10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer124–⁠8
At home2617–⁠9
On the road126–⁠6
At neutral sites10–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite3020–⁠10
As our Elo’s underdog93–⁠6

His own 39 games on file, 1945–⁠1948, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Against other head coaches

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Jeff Cravath 1945–⁠19481–⁠4USC5
Lon Stiner 1946–⁠19482–⁠1Oregon State3
Marchy Schwartz 1946–⁠19482–⁠1Stanford3

Bert LaBrucherie’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Californiaseries52–⁠3
USCseries51–⁠4
Oregonseries43–⁠1
Stanfordseries32–⁠1
Oregon Stateseries32–⁠1
Washingtonseries32–⁠1
Nebraskaseries22–⁠0
Saint Mary’s (CA)series22–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1935–⁠44Los Angeles HS (CA) high schoolHead coach
1945–⁠48UCLAHead coach
1949–⁠67CaltechHead coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Bert LaBrucherie

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
George DickersonUCLA, 1947–⁠48: assistant coachUCLA

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.