Spurgeon Cherry

Spurgeon Cherry
Biographical details
Cherry in 1961
Sport(s)	Basketball, football
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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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)
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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– )

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