Blair Cherry
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 7, 1901 Kerens, Texas |
| Died | September 10, 1966 (aged 65) Lubbock, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| 1920–1922 | TCU |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1926–1928 | Ranger (TX) HS |
| 1929 | Fort Worth (TX) North Side HS |
| 1930–1936 | Amarillo (TX) HS |
| 1937–1946 | Texas (OC) |
| 1947–1950 | Texas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 32–10–1 |
| Bowls | 2–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 SWC (1950) | |
Johnson Blair Cherry (August 7, 1901 – September 10, 1966) was a baseball and football coach for the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the Longhorn Hall of Honor and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
Cherry was born in Kerens, Texas on August 7, 1901. He 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. Upon graduation in 1924, he had a brief professional baseball career but soon entered the coaching profession. In 1936, he married Florence Snodgrass of Amarillo, with whom he had two children.
Cherry's first coaching position was at Ranger High School in Ranger, Texas, where he spent three seasons, from 1926 to 1928.
In 1929, Cherry coached for one season at North Side High School in Fort Worth.
In 1930, Cherry was named head coach at Amarillo High School. It was here that he established his reputation as a head coach. He compiled a record of 84 wins and 5 losses, with 45 of those wins by shutout. The average score in these games was 30–5. Amarillo High became the second school in Texas to win three straight state championships, in 1934, 1935, and 1936 (first was the Paul Tyson-coached Waco High in 1925, 1926, and 1927), allowing the opponent teams only a combined 13 points in these three championship games.
Cherry was considered as a candidate for the head coach position at the University of Texas at Austin in 1937, but was passed over for the better-known Dana X. Bible. Bible offered Cherry a position as an assistant coach on his staff. Bible groomed Cherry to be his successor, and upon Bible's retirement in 1946, Cherry was appointed as head coach.
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