Charles James McCoy was an American

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and basketball coach. McCoy was the third head coach of the Florida Gators football team and the first head coach of the

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team that represent the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Early life

McCoy attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he played for the

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team from 1907 to 1910.''RedHawks Football 2009 Fan Guide''
RedHawks History
Miami University Athletic Department, Oxford, Ohio, pp. 143, 175, 183 (2009). Retrieved July 11, 2010. He was a member of the 1908 Redskins team that outscored its opponents 113–10 while posting a 7–0 record, and was later the

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of the 1910 team during his

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year. McCoy also played baseball and basketball and ran track for Miami.Tom McEwen, ''The Gators: A Story of Florida Football'', The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama, p. 57 (1974).

Coaching career

McCoy got his start as a football coach at the

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, a preparatory school affiliated with the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. McCoy replaced

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as the Florida Gators football coach and held that position for three seasons from

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, and compiled a 9–10 record at Florida.College Football Data Warehouse, All-Time Coaching Records
Charles J. McCoy Records by Year
. Retrieved February 23, 2009.
2012 Florida Football Media Guide
'', University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 107, 115, 116 (2012). Retrieved September 16, 2012. He also served as Florida's first basketball coach during the 1915–1916 season and accumulated a 5–1 record. As measured by his winning percentage (.833), McCoy remains the winningest coach in Gators basketball history. Florida did not field a basketball team for the 1916–1917 season. After a winless 0–5 football season in 1916, McCoy was replaced as football coach by

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. McCoy served as the head coach at

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in 1917.

Head coaching record

Football

Basketball

References

Bibliography

*
2012 Florida Football Media Guide
', University Athletic Association, Gainesville (2012). * Carlson, Norm, ''University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators'', Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007). . * Golenbock, Peter, ''Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory'', Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002). . * McCarthy, Kevin M.
''Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football''
Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000). . * McEwen, Tom, ''The Gators: A Story of Florida Football'', The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama (1974). . * Proctor, Samuel, & Wright Langley, ''Gator History: A Pictorial History of the University of Florida'', South Star Publishing Company, Gainesville, Florida (1986). . {{DEFAULTSORT:McCoy, C. J. Year of birth missing Year of death missing Florida Gators football coaches Florida Gators men's basketball coaches Miami RedHawks football players Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops football coaches High school football coaches in Tennessee