Ed Emory | |
Sport(s) | Football |
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Biographical details | |
Born | Lancaster, South Carolina | April 14, 1937
Died | January 4, 2013 Wadesboro, North Carolina | (aged 75)
Playing career | |
Position(s) | Guard |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 26–29 (college) 77–7 (high school) |
Edward Harrell Emory, Sr. (April 14, 1937 – January 4, 2013) was an American football player and coach. He became East Carolina University's fourteenth head football coach in 1980. In 1983, he guided the Pirates to an 8–3 record and a #20 ranking in the Associated Press final national poll. His three losses came at the hands of Florida State, Florida, and Miami (Florida). The football team lost by a combined score of 13 points. Before coaching, Emory went to school at East Carolina College and was a three-year varsity letter winner and was third-team All-American in his senior year. He was inducted into the ECU Hall of Fame in 2003.
Emory returned to coaching at the high school level and served as head coach of the perennial North Carolina powerhouse, Richmond Senior High School in Rockingham, North Carolina, from 2001 to 2006, compiling at 77–7 record in that six-year span.[1]
Emory died at his home in Wadesboro, North Carolina in 2013.[2]
Head coaching record[]
College[]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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East Carolina Pirates (NCAA Division I-A independent) (1985–1988) | |||||||||
1980 | East Carolina | 4–7 | |||||||
1981 | East Carolina | 5–6 | |||||||
1982 | East Carolina | 7–4 | |||||||
1983 | East Carolina | 8–3 | 25 | 20 | |||||
1984 | East Carolina | 2–9 | |||||||
East Carolina: | 26–29 | ||||||||
Total: | 26–29 | ||||||||
†Indicates BCS bowl, Bowl Alliance or Bowl Coalition game. #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll. |
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