Spurgeon Cherry
American football and basketball player and coach
Cherry in 1961 | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | c. 1912 Florida, U.S. |
Died | June 1968 Gainesville, Florida, U.S. |
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]
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Florida Gators men's basketball head coaches
- C. J. McCoy (1915–1916)
- No team (1916–1919)
- No coach (1919–1920)
- William G. Kline (1920–1922)
- Check Byrd (1922–1923)
- James L. White (1923–1925)
- Brady Cowell (1925–1933)
- Ben Clemons (1933–1936)
- Josh Cody (1936–1937)
- Sam J. McAllister (1937–1942)
- Spurgeon Cherry (1942–1943)
- No team (1943–1944)
- Spurgeon Cherry (1944–1946)
- Sam J. McAllister (1946–1951)
- John Mauer (1951–1960)
- Norm Sloan (1960–1966)
- Tommy Bartlett (1966–1973)
- John Lotz (1973–1980)
- Ed Visscher # (1980)
- Norm Sloan (1980–1989)
- Don DeVoe # (1989–1990)
- Lon Kruger (1990–1996)
- Billy Donovan (1996–2015)
- Mike White (2015–2022)
- Al Pinkins # (2022)
- Todd Golden (2022–)
# denotes interim head coach