- Bert LaBrucherie
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Name = Bert LaBrucherie
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Years = 1926-28
Team = UCLA
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1945-1948
CoachTeams = Caltech
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BBallHOF =Bert LaBrucherie was an American football player and coach. He was inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. [cite web| url=http://www.bruingold.com/players/legends/HOF_UCLA.shtml |title=UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame |accessdate=2007-12-02 ]
Playing career
LaBrucherie played varsity football for UCLA from 1926 to 1928.
Football coaching career
After graduating from UCLA in 1929, he coached the football team at
Los Angeles High School , his alma mater. As head coach from 1935 to 1944, he had a 60-10-2 record. [cite web| url=http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Los_Angeles_HS/Sports/Sports_History.htm |title=Los Angeles High School |accessdate=2007-12-02] His team won three "B" team league titles and seven "A" team championships. From 1945 to 1948, he was the head coach for the UCLA Bruins. He then served as the head coach at Caltech from 1949 to 1967. His 1946 UCLA Bruins team lost to Illinois in the 1947 Rose Bowl.Record
Coach LaBrucherie's overall record at UCLA was 23-16-0. In his second year as head coach, the Bruins were
Pacific Coast Conference champions, and lost to Illinois in the Rose Bowl. [cite web| url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=1321&year=1946 |title=Coach LaBrucherie 1946 Record |accessdate=2007-12-02] LaBrucherie coached the Caltech Beavers for 19 years in theSouthern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference .cite web| url=http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/343/01/themonth.pdf |title="The Month at Caltech" - June 1973 |accessdate=2007-12-02 |format=PDF] Though the Caltech coaching position was less demanding, Coach LaBrucherie once explained in an interview that sometimes the players would "line up with the wrong team." [cite web| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,866367-1,00.html |title=The Purists |work=Time Magazine |date= 1955-05-16 |accessdate=2007-12-02] Caltech canceled their football program after the 1993 season, and their last football coach was Wendell Jack.CFB Yearly Record Start
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Other sports
Also while at Caltech, LaBrucherie coached track and cross-country. Under his leadership, the track team posted an overall record of 107-105. After resigning as the head football coach at Caltech, he coached cross-country from 1968 until his retirement in 1973.
References
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