Doby Bartling | |
Birth Date: | 1 June 1913 |
Death Place: | Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1934–1935 |
Player Team1: | Ole Miss |
Player Positions: | Quarterback |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1936–1938 |
Coach Team2: | Canton HS (MS) |
Coach Years3: | 1939–1941 |
Coach Team3: | Meridian HS (MS) (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 1942 |
Coach Team4: | Meridian HS (MS) |
Coach Years5: | 1943 |
Coach Team5: | Vanderbilt (assistant) |
Coach Years6: | 1944–1945 |
Coach Team6: | Vanderbilt |
Coach Years7: | 1946–1950 |
Coach Team7: | Millsaps |
Coach Sport8: | Basketball |
Coach Years9: | 1939–1942 |
Coach Team9: | Meridian HS (MS) |
Coach Years10: | 1946–1951 |
Coach Team10: | Millsaps |
Coach Sport11: | Baseball |
Coach Years12: | 1947–1949 |
Coach Team12: | Millsaps |
Overall Record: | 24–18–2 (college football) 25–63 (college basketball) 15–31 (college baseball) |
McNeil "Doby" Bartling Jr. (June 1, 1913 – October 9, 1992) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as head football coach at Vanderbilt University from 1944 to 1945 and at Millsaps College from 1946 to 1950, compiling a career college football record of 24–18–2. Bartling was also the head basketball coach at Millsaps from 1946 to 1951, tallying a mark of 25–63, and the head baseball coach at the school from 1947 to 1949, amassing a record of 15–31. He played football as a quarterback at the University of Mississippi. Bartling came to Vanderbilt in 1943 as an assistant coach after coaching at Meridian High School in Meridian, Mississippi.[1]
Bartling was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1977.[2] He died of heart failure, on October 9, 1992, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi.[3]