David Peacock (American football)

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David Roscoe “Emp” Peacock (March 15, 1890 – January 28, 1944) was an American college football player, coach, lawyer, and politician. He played guard for the University of Georgia from 1910 to 1912, earning All-Southern honors in 1911 and 1912 and serving as team captain in 1912. He was known as an aggressive lineman and weighed about 185 pounds. Peacock also served as an assistant coach for Georgia in 1914 before leaving to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Michigan.

In October 1916, Peacock became the head football coach at Mercer University in Macon for the final four games of the season, taking over after Jake Zellars went into military service. His Mercer record that year was 0–4.

Peacock entered politics as well, being elected to the Georgia State Senate in 1916 and serving as president pro tempore until he resigned to serve in World War I as a first lieutenant, where he was cited for bravery. After the war, he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and earned a diploma.

He returned to Eastman, Georgia to practice law. In 1920 he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia’s 12th district. Peacock moved to Bradenton, Florida in 1925 to continue practicing law with J. B. Singeltary. He retired in 1939 due to ill health and turned to farming and the cattle business. Peacock died on January 28, 1944, at Bay Pines Veterans Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.