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Born in Hollister, California, Hollingbery was raised in San Francisco and never attended college.
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He served from 1926 to 1942 and compiled a record of 93–53–14 (625). Hollingbery"s 93 wins are the most by any coach in the history of the Cougar football. He was named to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979.
He coached local high school football, one fall he led three teams, and later coached at the Olympic Club.
One of his players at Olympic was Buck Bailey, who became his line coach at in 1926 and headed the Cougar baseball program until 1961. Hollingbery coached at during what is generally agreed as its greatest football era.
The Cougars did not lose a home game from 1926 to 1935, and the 1930 team advanced to the Rose Bowl against Alabama. He coached some of the greatest names in history, including Turk Edwards, Mel Hein, Mel Dressel, Dale Gentry, Editor Goddard, Harold Ahlskog, Elmer Schwartz, Bob Kennedy, Nick Suseoff, Bill Sewell, John Bley, and Herbert "Butch" Meeker.
Before the 1943 season, the football program went on hiatus due to World World War World War II
Hollingbery trained United States. Army troops on campus and coached eight-grade football. He took a one-year leave of absence, beginning in mid-1944, moved to Yakima, and started a lucrative hop-growing business. When the Cougar football program was restarted, Hollingberry was asked to take a pay cut and did not return to Pullman.
Hollingbery Fieldhouse at University, a facility serving many different sports, was built in 1929 and renamed for the coach in 1963.
The dedication ceremony was at halftime of the Battle of the Palouse football game with Idaho on November 2. Hired after three consecutive Cougar losses to Idaho, Hollingberry never lost to the Vandals, with 16 wins and a tie (971).
Hollingbery also was the creator of the East–West Shrine Game and the head coach of the West team in the first East–West Shrine Game in 1925. He coached in a total of 18 Shrine games, leading players such as Harold Muller, Rags Matthews, and George Sauer.
Involved in minor league baseball in Yakima, Hollingbery was the president of the new for the 1955 season.
Hired in June after the resignation of Arthur Pohlman, Hollingbery stepped down that November. In late December 1973, Hollingbery suffered a stroke, fell into a coma, and died several weeks later at age 80.
