Johnson Blair Cherry was an American football and baseball coach.
13 Facts About Blair Cherry
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Blair Cherry attended Texas Christian University, where he starred football as an end and was captain of the 1923 TCU Horned Frogs football team.
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Blair Cherry played baseball at TCU, as a center fielder.
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Blair Cherry began his coaching career at the high school level in Texas, making stops at Ranger High School, North Side High School in Fort Worth, and Amarillo High School.
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Blair Cherry was born in Kerens, Texas, on August 7,1901.
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Blair Cherry played his high school ball at Weatherford High School and later attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in the early 1920s and was a three-sport star.
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Blair Cherry's first coaching position was at Ranger High School in Ranger, Texas, where he spent three seasons, from 1926 to 1928.
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In 1929, Blair Cherry coached for one season at North Side High School in Fort Worth.
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In 1930, Blair Cherry was named head football coach at Amarillo High School.
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Bible groomed Blair Cherry to be his successor, and upon Bible's retirement in 1946, Blair Cherry was appointed as head coach.
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Blair Cherry served as baseball coach from 1943 to 1945 during Bibb Falk's absence.
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Blair Cherry died on September 10,1966, from a coronary occultation, three weeks after undergoing a kidney operation and then returning to the hospital with chest pains.
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Blair Cherry was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame shortly before his death in 1966 and posthumously inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1968.