Al Baggett
Eustace Albert Baggett was an American football and basketball coach. He served as head football coach at West Texas State Teachers College—now known as West [Texas A&M University]—in Canyon, Texas from 1933 to 1939. Baggett compiled a 36–28–5 record in seven seasons and currently ranks third on the schools all-time winning list behind Joe Kerbel and Frank Kimbrough.
He was also the head basketball coach at West Texas State from 1934 to 1942. He was then the head coach at Brooklyn College from 1947 to 1950, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 216–93; he was followed as a coach at Brooklyn by Tubby Raskin.
Baggett was a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and pursued a master's degree at Columbia University. Prior to being hired at West Texas State in 1933, he coached at Vernon [High School |Vernon High School] in Vernon, Texas, Wichita Falls Junior College, and Amarillo Junior College.
He is the great-uncle of model, Alley Baggett.