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Charlie Tate
	Tate from The 1963 Blue Print
Biographical details
Born	February 20, 1919; Tracy City, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	June 10, 1996 (aged 77); Morganton, Georgia, U.S.
Playing career
1939–1941	Florida
Position(s)	Fullback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1951–1955	Miami HS (FL)
1956	Florida (freshmen)
1957–1963	Georgia Tech (backfield)
1964–1970	Miami (FL)
1971	New Orleans Saints (offensive backs)
1974	Jacksonville Sharks
1975	Jacksonville Express
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1968–1971	Miami
Head coaching record
Overall	34–27–3 (college); 8–11 (WFL)
Bowls	1–1
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
	Florida Sports Hall of Fame
Baseball career
	Catcher
Medals
Representing United States
Baseball World Cup

Charles William Tate (February 20, 1919 – June 10, 1996) was an American football player and coach. Tate served as the head coach of the University of Miami for six seasons during the 1960s and two games during the 1970 season.

Early life

Charlie Tate was born in the small town of Tracy City, Tennessee,^{[citation needed]} and later attended Julia E. Landon High School in Jacksonville, Florida.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating high school, he was selected to the United States national baseball team organized by Leslie Mann that played in the inaugural 1938 Amateur World Series, which became retroactively known as the first international baseball world championship.^[1]

Career

Tate attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a starting fullback for coach Josh Cody and coach Tom Lieb's Florida Gators football teams from 1939 to 1941.^[2]^[3] Memorably, he scored the Gators' only touchdown in their 7–7 tie of the Auburn Tigers in the first varsity game ever played in the Tigers' new Auburn Stadium.^[4] Tate graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in education in 1942.

Tate was the head football coach of the Miami Hurricanes football team of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, from 1964 to 1970. In six seasons and part of a seventh, he compiled an overall win–loss record of 34–27–3. His best season with the Hurricanes came in 1966, when his team went 8–2–1 and won the Liberty Bowl against Virginia Tech. Tate's departure from Miami was surrounded by controversy and attracted national media attention when he abruptly resigned as the Hurricanes' athletic director and head football coach after the second game of the 1970 football season.^[5]^[6]

Chuck Foreman was Tate's most famous recruit in the late 1960s. When interviewed at the ESPN Club in Orlando, Florida, Foreman, who went on to have a great career in the National Football League for the Minnesota Vikings, said of Tate, "He had faith in me, as a black athlete in the South during that tumultuous time, and I will never forget him. He was a great, generous man."^[7]

Tate also served as the head coach of two professional football teams, the Jacksonville Sharks and Jacksonville Express in the short lived World Football League in the mid-1970s. He was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.^[7]

Death

Tate died in 1996 from complications related to pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.

Head coaching record

College


Year	Team	Overall	Bowl/playoffs	Coaches^#	AP^°
Miami Hurricanes (NCAA University Division independent) (1964–1970)
1964	Miami	4–5–1
1965	Miami	5–4–1
1966	Miami	8–2–1	W Liberty	10	9
1967	Miami	7–4	L Bluebonnet	16
1968	Miami	5–5
1969	Miami	4–6
1970	Miami	1–1
Miami:		34–27–3
Total:		34–27–3
^#Rankings from final Coaches Poll. ^°Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

^ "LONDON v. AMERICA Souvenir Programme" (PDF). Project COBB. British National Baseball Association. August 21, 1938. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
^ 2011 Florida Gators Football Media Guide Archived April 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, p. 186 (2011). Retrieved August 31, 2011.
^ "#3 Miami: Even Jolly Cholly may have to start smiling now", Sports Illustrated (September 11, 1967). Retrieved August 10, 2011.
^ Tom McEwen, The Gators: A Story of Florida Football, The Strode Publishers, Huntsville, Alabama, p. 115 (1974).
^ "Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search".
^ "St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search".
^ ^a ^b Florida Sports Hall of Fame, Inductees, Charlie Tate. Retrieved August 10, 2011.