B. B. O'Mara
American football player and sports coach (1896–1969)
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1896-09-15)September 15, 1896 |
Died | May 24, 1969(1969-05-24) (aged 72) |
Alma mater | Mississippi (M.D. 1922) |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1918–1919 | Ole Miss |
1920 | Mississippi Normal |
1921 | Ole Miss |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1920 | Mississippi Normal |
Basketball | |
1920–1921 | Mississippi Normal |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 4–2–1 (football) 2–2 (basketball) |
Braxton Bragg "Opp" O'Mara (September 15, 1896 – May 24, 1969) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as a football player-coach for one season at the University of Southern Mississippi–then known as Mississippi Normal College–in 1920, compiling a record of 4–2–1.[1] His stint as a player at Hattiesburg was sandwiched between two stints as a player at the University of Mississippi (1918–1919, 1921).[2] O'Mara graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1922.[3]
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Mississippi Normal Normalites (Independent) (1920) | |||||||||
1920 | Mississippi Normal | 4–2–1 | |||||||
Mississippi Normal: | 4–2–1 | ||||||||
Total: | 4–2–1 |
References
- ^ Cox, John W. (2004). Rock Solid: Southern Miss Football. University Press of Mississippi. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Ole Miss". University of Mississippi. 1922. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Ole Miss (1922)". University of Mississippi. 1922. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
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Southern Miss Golden Eagles head football coaches
- Ronald J. Slay (1912)
- Blondie Williams (1913)
- A. B. Dille (1914–1916)
- No team (1917–1918)
- Cephus Anderson (1919)
- B. B. O'Mara (1920)
- O. V. Austin (1921–1923)
- William Herschel Bobo (1924–1927)
- William B. Saunders (1928–1929)
- John Lumpkin (1930)
- Pooley Hubert (1931–1936)
- Reed Green (1937–1942)
- No team (1943–1945)
- Reed Green (1946–1948)
- Thad Vann (1949–1968)
- P. W. Underwood (1969–1974)
- Bobby Collins (1975–1981)
- Jim Carmody (1982–1987)
- Curley Hallman (1988–1990)
- Jeff Bower (1990–2007)
- Larry Fedora (2008–2011)
- Ellis Johnson (2012)
- Todd Monken (2013–2015)
- Jay Hopson (2016–2020)
- Scotty Walden # (2020)
- Tim Billings # (2020)
- Will Hall (2021– )
# denotes interim head coach