failures, I ran across this tidbit of Pac-8 conference history. It turns out that after Red Sanders stroked out in ahotel with a whore and her pimp, that an assistant took over. That assistant had a drug addiction problem and sufferd a "nervous breakdown". That was the term usually used in those days; maybe it was just how bad, but either way Dickerson flamed out after UCAL was curb stomped. " Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1958. George Dickerson, UCLA head football coach, late yesterday' was readmitted to the UCLA Medical Center after suffering a "bad setback" from the nervous exhaustion, which hospitalized him just before the season began."
UCLA sucked so badly that their coach went to the hospital.
Having a 1-2 w/l record with 0-1 in conference got him put into the UCLA Hall of fame--LOL. Dickerson coached for three games as head coach, losing to #21 Pittsburgh on September 20, winning at Illinois, then losing 14–0 at Oregon State.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/la-sp-ucla-red-sanders-20180813-story.html
The scandalous nature of Sanders’ death made everything around the team hush-hush.
“It was kind of an embarrassment, as far as the university was concerned,” Peterson said. “They kind of swept his name under the rug. They didn’t want to discuss it, that’s for damn sure, or have it out in the press.”
In a move that was widely anticipated, UCLA appointed George Dickerson as Sanders’ replacement. Dickerson had been the team’s senior assistant coach and a former Bruins tackle who was captain during his senior season in 1936.
But the strain of the situation proved overwhelming. One day before the start of training camp, Dickerson was admitted to UCLA Medical Center because of nervous exhaustion. Doctors ordered him to rest for two weeks.
“It was so sudden, it was such a take-on so quick and so suddenly that it was a lot of pressure on him,” Boghosian said.
Upon his return, Dickerson declared himself fit to coach and UCLA to be better than the team that had gone 8-2 the previous season. But the Bruins were upset by Pittsburgh 27-6 in their opener and Dickerson was readmitted to the hospital after UCLA’s third game, a 14-0 loss to Oregon State that dropped the team’s record to 1-2. Doctors said Dickerson had suffered a “bad setback” that would necessitate three months of rest.
UCLa continued sucking as it historically does following Dickerson's flake-out and Sanders Pimp-Whore death.
Assistant Bill Barnes took over and had more downs than ups during the next seven seasons as coach, when UCLA went 32-36-3. The Bruins wouldn’t come close to matching the sustained level of success they enjoyed under Sanders ...