David Peacock (American football)

David Roscoe "Emp" Peacock (March 15, 1890 – January 28, 1944) was an American college football player and coach, lawyer, and politician. Peacock played football at the University of Georgia from 1910 to 1912. He was the head football coach at Mercer University, in Macon, Georgia, for the final four games of 1916 season. Peacock was elected to the Georgia State Senate in 1916 and served as president pro-tempore. He lated practiced law in Eastman, Georgia and Bradenton, Florida.

Playing
As a player, he was an All-Southern guard captain for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia in 1912. An Athens newspaper said he was "probably the most aggressive lineman in the South." He weighed 185 pounds.

Coaching
Peacock was an assistant for the 1914 Georgia Bulldogs, leaving to get his master's degree at the University of Michigan. In October 1916, Peacock took over midseason as head football coach at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He succeeded Jake Zellars, who was recalled into military service.

Military service, legal and political career, and later life
Peacock was elected to the Georgia State Senate in 1916 and served there as president pro-tempore until resigning to entering military service during World War I. He was a first lieutenant and was cited for bravery in action. He attended Sorbonne University in Paris after the war and earned a diploma. Peacock then returned to Eastman, Georgia to practice law. In 1920, he was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Georgia's 12th congressional district. Peacock relocated to Bradenton, Florida in 1925, where he practiced law with J. B. Singeltary. He retired from law in 1939 due to ill health and was thereafter engaged in farming and the cattle business.

Peacock died on January 28, 1944, at Bay Pines Veteran's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.