12 Facts About Ted Coy

Edward Harris Coy was an American football player and coach.

Ted Coy served as Yale's head football coach in 1910.

In 1951, Coy was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class.

Ted Coy was the son of the first headmaster at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, and began his education at Hotchkiss.

Ted Coy became recognized as one of the greatest football players in the history of the game.

Ted Coy was named a first-team All-American in all three years in which he played varsity football at Yale.

Ted Coy missed the first four games of the 1909 season after undergoing an appendectomy, but he returned to lead Yale to victories over Army, Princeton, and Harvard.

Ted Coy wrote football articles for the New York World, Boston Globe, San Francisco Herald, and St Nicholas Magazine.

In 1925, Coy was secretly married to the noted stage actress Jeanne Eagels.

Eagels sued for divorce in February 1928 on grounds of cruelty, alleging that Coy had assaulted her, had broken her jaw and threatened her with the words "ruin that beautiful face of yours" in order to stop the forward progress of her movie career.

Ted Coy pleaded no contest in the divorce action and moved to Texas.

Several months after his death, Time magazine ran a story about Ted Coy's widow selling his most prized possessions to a pawnshop:.