Harris G. Cope
Coach Cope c. 1913
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 16, 1880 Savannah, Georgia |
| Died | September 24, 1924 (aged 44) Birmingham, Alabama |
| Alma mater | Sewanee: The University of the South |
| Playing career | |
| 1899–1901 | Sewanee |
| Position(s) | Third baseman/Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1904 | Sewanee (assistant) |
| 1909–1916 | Sewanee |
| 1922–1923 | Howard |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 48–28–12 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 SIAA (as player) (1899) 1 SIAA (as coach) (1909) |
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Harris Goodwin Cope (March 16, 1880 – September 24, 1924) was an American football and baseball player and football coach. Cope was a member of the National Football Rules Committee in 1914-15.
Cope first played at Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
In his first year of varsity football, Cope was a substitute quarterback on the undefeated "Iron Men" of the 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team. He was the captain and the starting quarter for Sewanee's 1901 team.
He played third baseman on the Sewanee baseball team.
Cope coached at Sewanee: University of the South and Howard College. He worked for a short time as a business man in Cartersville before returning to Sewanee to coach in 1909.
Cope has the third-most wins of any Sewanee coach (43), behind Shirley Majors' 93 and John Windham's 45; and has the highest winning percentage of any Sewanee coach who coached for more than 3 seasons. His continuity came after a period in which Sewanee had much talent but six coaches in seven years.
In Cope's first year at head coach he led the Sewanee Tigers to an Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship in 1909, beating previous season's champion LSU and handing Vanderbilt its first loss to a Southern team in six years.
Former Sewanee player Bob Taylor Dobbins assisted Cope at Howard.
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