Career
He served as the head football coach for at the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles) from 1958 to 1964. Barneswas born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He played high school football for Central High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
Barnes played college football at the University of Tennessee under coach Robert Neyland.
This team was invited to play in the 1940 Rose Bowl, where they lost to University of Southern California, 14–0. Barnes served during World World War II and was assigned to the Alamo Scouts.
Barnes served as an assistant football coach at the University of Arkansas. He then came to University of California, Los Angeles to serve as an assistant coach for Henry Russell Sanders in 1950.
Sanders died of a heart attack before the 1958 season.
George West. Dickerson was named the head coach. Before the season began, Dickerson had been admitted to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center with nervous exhaustion on August 30, 1958. Dickerson returned to coach on September 11, and coached for three games as head coach, losing to #21 Pittsburgh on September 20, winning at Illinois, then losing 14–0 at Oregon State.
Barnes was named acting head coach for the October 10, 1958 game against Florida.
Dickerson had been admitted to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center late the previous evening suffering from nervous exhaustion. Barnes was the head coach for the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins football team from 1959 to 1964.
He guided his teams to a 31–34–3 (478) record. Three of the assistant coaches from the 1954 national championship season later served as head coaches for the Bruins: Dickerson, Barnes, and Tommy Prothro.
Both the late coach Sanders and assistant coach Prothro also were from Tennessee.
Barnes resigned after the 1964 season after learning that athletic director J. Doctorate. Morgan was not going to renew his contract.
