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Spurgeon Cherry

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Spurgeon Cherry
Cherry in 1961
Biographical details
Bornc. 1912
Florida, U.S.
DiedJune 1968
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1930–1932Florida
Position(s)End (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1939–1941Hillsborough High
?Florida (assistant)
Basketball
1942–1943Florida
1944–1946Florida

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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  1. ^ "History of HHP".
  2. ^ "Spurgeon Cherry Left End Frosh Game Tomorrow, October 11, 1929".
  3. ^ "Hillsborough Terriers". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2015.