Football Coach
He served as an assistant football coach at the University of Arkansas. He then came to UCLA to serve as an assistant coach for "Red" Sanders in 1950. Sanders died of a heart attack before the 1958 season. George Dickerson was named the head coach. Before the season began, Dickerson had been admitted to the UCLA Medical Center with nervous exhaustion on August 30, 1958. Dickerson returned to coach on September 11, and coached for three games as head coach, losing to #21 Pittsburgh on September 20, winning at Illinois, then losing 14–0 at Oregon State. Barnes was named acting head coach for the October 10, 1958 game against Florida. Dickerson had been admitted to the UCLA Medical Center late the previous evening suffering from nervous exhaustion. Barnes was the Head coach for the UCLA Bruins football team from 1959 to 1964. He guided his teams to a 31–34–3 (.478) record. He did have two seven-win seasons in 1960 and 1961, leading the Bruins to the 1962 Rose Bowl. Three of the assistant coaches from the 1954 National Championship season would serve as head coaches for the Bruins: Dickerson, Barnes, and Tommy Prothro. Both Head coach Sanders and Assistant coach Prothro also were from Tennessee.
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