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Hollingbery coached at Washington State 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 [[1931 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] against [[1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]].<ref name=costscp>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hc9XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zfQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5661%2C6999 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |title=Crowd of 70,000 sees Cougar play |date=January 1, 1931 |page=1}}</ref> He coached some of the greatest names in Washington State history, including [[Turk Edwards]], [[Mel Hein]], Mel Dressel, Dale Gentry, Ed 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 War II]];<ref name=wftbn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M9xXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jfUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3505%2C1312799 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |last=Ashlock |first=Herb |title=Word from the bench |date=June 4, 1943 |page=11}}</ref><ref name=dlhart>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ONxXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jfUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7079%2C2368670 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |title=Don't lose Hollingbery, is Round Table plea to college |date=June 10, 1943 |page=16}}</ref> Hollingbery trained [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] troops on campus and coached eighteighth-grade football.<ref name=bhlfgapc>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o6kWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EyMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3656%2C1233978 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal |agency=Associated Press |title=Babe Hollingbery loses first game as a prep coach |date=October 1943 |page=2, part 2}}</ref><ref name=bhsghkcgg>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rakWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EyMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2274%2C5469889 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal |agency=Associated Press |title=Babe Hollingbery so good his kids can't get a game |date=October 28, 1943 |page=10, part 2}}</ref> He took a one-year leave of absence, beginning in mid-1944,<ref name=howsclv>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T7hWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OukDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6723%2C853017 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press |title=Hollingbery on W.S.C. leave |date=March 25, 1944 |page=6 }}</ref><ref name=bhtlcgrs>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBhPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wB8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3742%2C1944084 |newspaper=The Bulletin |location=Bend, Oregon |title=Babe Hollingberry to leave Cougars |agency=United Press|date=March 25, 1944 |page=2}}</ref> moved to [[Yakima, Washington|Yakima]],<ref name=bhtoenbfyk>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HgtWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AeIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4921%2C2074241 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |title=Babe Hollingbery to enter business field in Yakima |date=April 13, 1944 |page=13 }}</ref><ref name=hbwefrut>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WdhXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bPUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7346%2C5145101 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |last=Newland |first=Russ |title=Hollingbery will enter fruit business in Yakima |date=April 25, 1944 |page=12 }}</ref> and started a lucrative [[Hops|hop]]-growing business.<ref name=yhrpsp>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JysaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3694%2C395837 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal |agency=Associated Press |last=Newland |first=Russ |title=Young hurler real prospect |date=May 16, 1947 |page=2, part 2 }}</ref> When the Cougar football program was restarted, Hollingberry was asked to take a pay cut and did not return to [[Pullman, Washington|Pullman]].<ref name=scabasoh>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=49lXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dfUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7432%2C5804903 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |title=State College alumni bitter about "sacking" of Hollingbery |last=Johnson |first=Bob |date=May 28, 1945 |page=9 }}</ref><ref name=whhppned>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ddhXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gPUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2787%2C2412268 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |last=Johnson |first=Bob |title=My Nickel's Worth |date=April 11, 1946 |page=26 }}</ref><ref name=thlwlv>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zSxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5ewDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5361%2C4610949 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |title=The Hollingberry legend will live |last=Missildine |first=Harry |date=January 13, 1974 |page=1, sports }}</ref><ref name=bcitpnw>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SqQpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nfYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5257%2C22137 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |agency=Associated Press, ''(Yakima Morning Herald)'' |last=Brewer |first=Fred |title=Babe's "community" is the Pacific Northwest |date=January 1, 1955 |page=1}}</ref>
Hollingbery Fieldhouse at Washington State University, a facility serving many different sports, was built in 1929 and renamed for the coach in 1963;<ref name=hfaug>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qJ0zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CekDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6587%2C1875334 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |title="Hollingbery" Fieldhouse |date=August 6, 1963 |page=14 }}</ref> the dedication ceremony was at halftime of the [[Battle of the Palouse]] football game with [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho]] on November 2.<ref name=hfhren63id>{{cite web |url=http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/pullman/id/2115/rec/11 |publisher=Washington State University Libraries |agency=Digital Collections |title=Hollingbery Fieldhouse naming, 1963 |date=November 2, 1963 |accessdate=September 28, 2014}}</ref> Hired after three consecutive Cougar losses to Idaho, Hollingberry never lost to the Vandals, with 16 wins and a tie ({{winning percentage|16|0|1}}).
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