Carl T. "Rocky" Herakovich (born August 6, 1937) is an American retired engineering professor, college football player, coach and official.
He served as the head football coach at Rose Polytechnic Institute—now known as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology—from 1962 to 1963, compiling a record of 3–13.
Herakovich was the founding director of the NASA-Virginia Tech Composites Program at Virginia Tech and Director of Applied Mechanics and the Henry L Kinnier Professor of civil engineering at the University of Virginia.
[1] Herakovich played football at Rose Poly as a halfback.
He was a graduate student, research assisatnt, and assistant instructor in the engineering mechanics department at the University of Kansas when he was hired, in 1962, as head football coach at his alma mater, succeeding Max Kidd.