Ted Coy
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| Biographical details | |
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| Born |
May 23, 1888 Andover, Massachusetts |
| Died | September 8, 1935 (aged 47) New York, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1907–1909 | Yale |
| Position(s) | Fullback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1910 | Yale |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| All-American (1907, 1908, 1909) Camp All-time All-America team Thorpe All-time All-America team |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1951 (profile) |
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Edward Harris "Ted" Coy (May 23, 1888 – September 8, 1935) was an American football player and coach. Coy was selected as a first-team All-American three straight years from 1907 to 1909 and was later selected as the fullback on Walter Camp's All-Time All-America team. He also 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.
Coy was the son of the first headmaster at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, and began his education at Hotchkiss.
He then enrolled at Yale University in 1906. While attending Yale, Coy was also secretly a member of The Yale Whiffenpoofs, the oldest collegiate a cappella group in the United States. Coy was described as "a song lover with a good ear and a nice tenor voice." To "cover the heresy" of his joining the Whiffenpoofs, he was given the title "Perpetual Guest." He also became a member of Skull and Bones.
Coy became recognized as one of the greatest football players in the history of the game. It was reportedly "a familiar sight when Ted would burst through an enemy defense, his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband." George Trevor once described Coy as "a leonine figure, with a pug nose and a shock of yellow hair like a Gloucester fisher girl." He ran "with a high-knee action." He stood 6 feet tall and weighed 195 pounds.
Coy was named a first-team All-American in all three years in which he played varsity football at Yale. During those three seasons, Yale lost only one game, a 4–0 loss to Harvard in 1908.
As a senior in 1909, Coy led the Yale team to an undefeated 10–0 record, outscoring opponents 209–0. 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. In December 2008, Sports Illustrated undertook to identify the individuals who would have been awarded the Heisman Trophy in college football's early years, before the trophy was established. Coy was selected as the would-be Heisman winner for the 1909 season. The National Football Foundation did the same, and also chose Coy in 1909. Coy was selected by Walter Camp as the fullback for his All-time All-America team. He was listed third-team on Outing's All-time All-American.Leland Devore once said Jim Thorpe "smashes into the line like a pair of Coys."
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