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Emory Dilworth Bellard (December 17, 1927 – February 10, 2011) was an American college and high school football coach and the inventor of the Wishbone formation. He was the head football coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985.
Bellard died on February 10, 2011, after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) since the fall of 2010.
Bellard is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Texas High School Sports Hall Of Fame. He also won two National Championships at Texas as the offensive coordinator.
A native of Luling, Texas, Bellard was one of 12 children. His father was a geologist and driller who arrived in Central Texas in the late 1920s to take part in the emerging oil boom.
When he was 12 years old his family moved to Aransas Pass, Texas to facilitate his father’s recuperation after an accident, but his father succumbed to the injuries and died when Bellard was young. His mother managed a fishing bungalow, where he helped clean fish and made beds. As a junior he transferred to Aransas Pass High School so that he could play football. He graduated from the school in 1945.
He went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he played running back during his freshman year under coach Dana X. Bible. Bellard broke his leg during his sophomore season and transferred to Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) from which he graduated in 1949.
Bellard was a high school head coach for 21 seasons, where he achieved a record of 177–59–9 and won three state titles. During his time as a high school coach, he explored the idea of running an offense out of a three-back formation.
Bellard started coaching in 1949 and became the head coach at Ingleside High School, a Class B school in Ingleside, Texas in 1952. He guided the school to two consecutive regional wins (as far as Class B football went) in 1953 and 1954, and a street near Ingleside High School is named after him. He was then hired to succeed Joe Kerbel at Breckenridge High School, then a state powerhouse in the second-highest UIL classification. Under coach Kerbel and his predecessor Cooper Robbins, Breckenridge won three 3A state championships in 1951, 1952, and 1954. Bellard continued that winning tradition with state titles in 1958 and 1959.
Emory Bellard
Emory Dilworth Bellard (December 17, 1927 – February 10, 2011) was an American college and high school football coach and the inventor of the Wishbone formation. He was the head football coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985.
Bellard died on February 10, 2011, after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) since the fall of 2010.
Bellard is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Texas High School Sports Hall Of Fame. He also won two National Championships at Texas as the offensive coordinator.
A native of Luling, Texas, Bellard was one of 12 children. His father was a geologist and driller who arrived in Central Texas in the late 1920s to take part in the emerging oil boom.
When he was 12 years old his family moved to Aransas Pass, Texas to facilitate his father’s recuperation after an accident, but his father succumbed to the injuries and died when Bellard was young. His mother managed a fishing bungalow, where he helped clean fish and made beds. As a junior he transferred to Aransas Pass High School so that he could play football. He graduated from the school in 1945.
He went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he played running back during his freshman year under coach Dana X. Bible. Bellard broke his leg during his sophomore season and transferred to Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) from which he graduated in 1949.
Bellard was a high school head coach for 21 seasons, where he achieved a record of 177–59–9 and won three state titles. During his time as a high school coach, he explored the idea of running an offense out of a three-back formation.
Bellard started coaching in 1949 and became the head coach at Ingleside High School, a Class B school in Ingleside, Texas in 1952. He guided the school to two consecutive regional wins (as far as Class B football went) in 1953 and 1954, and a street near Ingleside High School is named after him. He was then hired to succeed Joe Kerbel at Breckenridge High School, then a state powerhouse in the second-highest UIL classification. Under coach Kerbel and his predecessor Cooper Robbins, Breckenridge won three 3A state championships in 1951, 1952, and 1954. Bellard continued that winning tradition with state titles in 1958 and 1959.