Spurgeon Cherry

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Spurgeon Cherry
File:Spurgeoncherry.jpg
Cherry in 1961
Sport(s) Basketball, football
Biographical details
Born c. 1912
Florida
Died June 1968
Gainesville, Florida
Playing career
Football
1930–1932 Florida
Position(s) End (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1939–1941 Hillsborough High
? Florida (assistant)
Basketball
1942–1943 Florida
1944–1946) Florida

Henry Spurgeon Cherry, Jr. (c. 1912 – June, 1968) was an American football and basketball player and coach for the Florida Gators; the first chairman of the Department of Intramural Athletics and Recreation at the University of Florida, in 1946.[1] He played as an end on the football team for coach Charlie Bachman from 1930 to 1932.[2] Cherry coached the Gators basketball team in the 1940s. Cherry was coach of the Hillsborough High Terriers football team from 1939 to 1941.[3]

References

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