About Spurgeon Cherry
Lived 1912 – 1968 (aged 55–56). Spurgeon Cherry was an American american football player and basketball coach.
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. He played as an end on the football team for coach Charlie Bachman from 1930 to 1932. Cherry coached the Gators basketball team in the 1940s. Cherry was coach of the Hillsborough High Terriers football team from 1939 to 1941.
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Who was Spurgeon Cherry?
American football player (1912-1968)
When was Spurgeon Cherry born?
Spurgeon Cherry was born in 1912 in Florida.
When did Spurgeon Cherry die?
Spurgeon Cherry died in 1968 in Gainesville.
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Spurgeon Cherry was an american football player and basketball coach.
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Spurgeon Cherry was American.
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