Charles Edward Coates, Jr. (August 13, 1866 – December 27, 1939) was an American
academic
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,
chemist
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, and
college football
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Unlike most ...
player and coach. He was the third faculty member with a
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* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
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in
Louisiana State University
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's history. Coates was known worldwide for his work in
sugar
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chemistry research and he served as the dean of the Audubon Sugar School. Coates was also the first head coach of the
LSU Tigers football
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team. He lost the only game he ever coached in
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
to a team composed mostly of ex-
Tulane
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players and members of the Southern Athletic Club, 34–0.
Coates was born in
Baltimore, Maryland
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in 1866. His father, Charles E. Coates, Sr., practiced medicine in Baltimore after moving from
Coatesville, Pennsylvania
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, which had been settled by and named for his ancestors. Coates played football at
Johns Hopkins University
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and when he came to LSU in 1893, he volunteered to organize and coach the school's first football squad. He married Ollie Maurin of
Donaldsonville, Louisiana
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in 1901. The couple had four children. Coates died in 1939.
The Charles E. Coates Memorial Fund at LSU is named after him, as is Coates Hall, a building on LSU's campus.
Head coaching record
References
External links
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1866 births
1939 deaths
American chemists
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football players
Louisiana State University faculty
LSU Tigers football coaches
Coaches of American football from Maryland
Players of American football from Baltimore
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