William Herschel Bobo

William Herschel Bobo was an American minor league baseball player and manager, college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State Teachers College—now known as the University of Southern Mississippi—from 1924 to 1927, compiling a record of 9–17–4. Bobo was also the head basketball coach at Mississippi State Teachers from 1924 to 1928, tallying a mark of 31–17–1, and the school's head baseball from 1925 to 1928, amassing a record of 19–10–1.
On March 4, 1934, Bobo was hired as the head baseball coach at Auburn University, succeeding Sam J. McAllister. He resigned several weeks later, on April 14, to work for a wholesale grocery firm in Jackson, Mississippi. He was replaced by Dell Morgan as Auburn's coach.
Bobo was a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi. He died on February 18, 1975, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.