Bob Mears

Robert Mears (born 1933) is American former college football coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California from 1976 to 1989.

Mears was born in 1933, in Wichita, Kansas. He attended high school in La Junta, Colorado and then played football and basketball at La Junta Junior College—now known as Otero College in the early 1950s. Mears transferred to Western State College of Colorado—now known as Western Colorado University—earning all-Rocky Mountain Conference honors in football, basketball, and baseball.

Mears was the head football coach at Shafter High School in Shafter, California from 1962 to 1965. He was an assistant football coach in 1966 at Oxnard, California's Channel Islands High School before returning to the head coaching ranks the following year at Simi Valley High School in Simi Valley, California. Mears went to Southwestern College in 1970 as a defensive assistant under head football coach under Wes Foreman. After five seasons as defensive coordinator for the Southwestern Apaches, he succeeded Foreman as head coach in 1976. Mears also served as athletic director at Southwestern and coached swimming and women's softball.

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