George Dickerson, head coach at UCLA
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George Dickerson

George Dickerson went 1–⁠2 as a head coach, 1958, at UCLA.

Record
1–⁠2 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1958 3–⁠6–⁠1

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1958UCLA coached three of 10 games1–⁠2

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams10–⁠1
Conference games10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer11–⁠0
At home10–⁠1
On the road21–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite21–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog10–⁠1

His own three games on file, 1958, 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.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Illinoisseries11–⁠0
Oregon Stateseries10–⁠1
Pittsburghseries10–⁠1

Other roles

  • Team captain, UCLA 1936

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1947–⁠57UCLAAssistant coach
1958UCLAHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

George Dickerson

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Bert LaBrucherieUCLA1947–⁠48Assistant coach
Red SandersUCLA1949–⁠57Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bill BarnesUCLA, 1958: 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.