Dick Bestwick (born 1930) is a former American football coach who served as head coach of the University of Virginia from 1976-1981 finishing with a career record as a head coach of 16-49-1. A native of Grove City, Pennsylvania, he played football and graduated from North Carolina in 1952. Dick went on to receive his Masters in Education from Penn State. Prior to his tenure at Virginia, Dick spent 1954-1962 as a high school football coach at 3 different schools to include his alma mater, Grove City High School, and 1967-1975 as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech. Bestwick was hired as the Marshall University Head Football Coach in 1971 after the 1970 Plane Crash disaster that took the lives of most of the University's football team and coaching staff. He left the position after two days on the job and returned to Georgia Tech.
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