Career
He served as the head football coach at Texas Technical University from 1978 to 1980 and at Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, from 1981 to 1983, compiling a career college football record of 23–40–3. Dockery was killed in a plane crash in 1983. Dockery was a 1960 graduate of Bradley Central High School in Cleveland, Tennessee.
In high school, he played several sports and was an all-state guard on the football team
He went on to receive a degree from the University of Tennessee where he played four years of football for the Volumes Dockery got his coaching start as a graduate assistant at Tennessee.
He then coached football at Harriman High School in 1966. The following year, he took the head coaching job at Morristown East High School and led the team to a state championship in 1969.
Tennessee, Georgia Technical, and Vanderbilt Moving to the college ranks, Dockery became an assistant under Bill Battle at Tennessee.
During his time there, he coached Philosophy Fulmer and was responsible for recruiting Condredge Holloway. In 1972, Dockery became the offensive line coach at Georgia Technical, where he was reunited with his high school teammate Steve Sloan. Dockery followed Sloan to Vanderbilt in 1973.
When Sloan went on to Texas Technical two years later, Dockery went with him as offensive coordinator.
Texas Technical When Steve Sloan left Texas Technical for Ole Mission in 1978, Dockery became the team"s head coach. Memphis State Dockery served as the head football coach for the Memphis Tigers from 1981 to 1983.
He had an 8–24–1 record at Memphis State (now University of Memphis), starting his tenure with back-to-back 1–10 seasons and going 6–4-1 in his final season.