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Sport(s)
  
Basketball, football

1939–1941
  
Hillsborough High

1944–1946)
  
Florida

1930–1932
  
Florida

1942–1943
  
Florida

Position
  
End (football)

Died
  
June 1968, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Henry Spurgeon Cherry, Jr. (c. 1912 – June, 1968) was an American football and basketball player and coach for the Florida Gators; the first chairman of the Department of Intramural Athletics and Recreation at the University of Florida, in 1946. He played as an end on the football team for coach Charlie Bachman from 1930 to 1932. Cherry coached the Gators basketball team in the 1940s. Cherry was coach of the Hillsborough High Terriers football team from 1939 to 1941.

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