William F. Barnes

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William F. Barnes

Sport	Football
Place of birth	Memphis, Tennessee
Career highlights
Overall	31-34-3
Coaching stats
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Playing career
1937-39	Tennessee
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1958-1964	UCLA

William F. Barnes (born in Memphis, Tennessee) was the head football coach for UCLA from 1958 to 1964. He guided his teams to a 31-34-3 (.478) record. He did have two seven win seasons in 1960 and 1961. He played high school football for Central High School in Memphis. He played college football at Tennessee under coach Robert Neyland.

He entered World War II, and was assigned to the Pacific Division. He earned a couple of medals, and earned the rank of Major. He served as a football coach at the University of Arkansas as well. He is a 2001 inductee to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.^[1]

Preceded by George W. Dickerson	UCLA Football Head Coach 1958-1964	Succeeded by Tommy Prothro

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Cozens • Trotter • Cline • Spaulding • Horrell • LaBrucherie • Sanders • Dickerson • Barnes • Prothro • Rodgers • Vermeil • Donahue • Toledo • Kezirian (Interim) • Dorrell • Walker (Interim) • Neuheisel