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Charles E. Coates
By Ethan Levine
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Charles E. Coates coached LSU in its first-ever football game in 1893, its first official season as a football progrm. Coates and the Tigers lost 34-0 to Tulane and he was replaced by Albert P. Simmons prior to the 1894 season. Coates passed away in 1939 at the age of 73.
A former newspaper reporter who has roamed the southeastern United States for years covering football and eating way too many barbecue ribs, if there is such a thing.
