Joe Bailey Metcalf (

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, August 11, 1901 – Oklahoma, September 7, 1979) was an

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coach who served as head football coach at

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from 1952 to 1957. He compiled a record of 32–21–2 for the

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and Ted Owens on the

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, Oklahoma Tigers football team. He also coached Owens in basketball, discouraging the future legendary

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basketball coach of toying with the jump shot, in favor of the tried and true set shot. After retiring as head coach of the

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, Darrell Royal would mention that even at the end of his coaching career in 1976, he was still using the principles learned from two men; Bud Wilkinson at the University of Oklahoma, and Joe Bailey Metcalf of Hollis High School and Southwestern Oklahoma State. Before Ted Owens played basketball at

, he was on the football team, courtesy of OU football assistant coach Bill Jennings. Jennings had come to Hollis High School to recruit two other Hollis Tiger football players, and Owens gives Metcalf credit for talking Jennings into giving Owens a half-scholarship as well.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Metcalf, Joe Bailey 1901 births 1979 deaths People from Harmon County, Oklahoma Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs football coaches Coaches of American football from Oklahoma