About Harry Bolick
Lived 1912 – 1999 (aged 87). Harry Bolick was an American boxer, american football player, baseball player and basketball player.
Coaching career After graduating from Presbyterian, Bolick accepted a position as multi-sport coach at High Point High School in July 1935. He served as head football coach, head boxing coach, head basketball coach, and led the latter to the championship of both Carolinas in 1936–37. Bolick left for Lake View High School in 1938. leading the football team to the Class B championship in his only year. He led the team to a 10–1–1 record and won 7–6 in the championship. He left Gaffney High School to become principal at Johns Island High School in 1941. Bolick remained in this position until leaving for the United States Army in 1942.
After being discharged as a captain in 1946, he was named athletic director, baseball coach, and football coach at Erskine College, which was resuming its athletic program after having dropped it at the start of the war. As a result, the football team compiled a disastrous 0–9 record, after which Bolick resigned, although he finished coaching the remaining sports for the 1946–47 season.
Bolick was a coach at Seneca High School for the 1947 season. The following year, he began coaching at Ford High School in Laurens, South Carolina. and was a member of the Providence A. R. P. Church. He died in Clinton, South Carolina, on November 21, 1999, at the age of 87.
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Who was Harry Bolick?
American athlete and coach (1912–1999)
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Harry Bolick was born on 29 October 1912.
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Harry Bolick died on 21 November 1999.
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Harry Bolick was a boxer, american football player, baseball player and basketball player.
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Harry Bolick was American.
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