University of Minnesota Athletics
Theodore "Ted" J. Cox
9/10/2007 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
| Theodore "Ted" J. Cox Class of 2005 Football Track & Field Basketball 1922-24 |
One of the most athletic performers to ever don the Maroon and Gold, Ted Cox was a letter winner in three varsity sports at the U of M. He lettered three times in track and field and football and once in basketball.
Following his junior year, Cox was elected football captain. Playing offensive tackle, he was a major and memorable contributor to the 1924 football team. Season honors included being named to the All-Big Ten first team and to Walter Camp’s All-American second team. Although Cox wanted to play basketball all three years, concern by the football coaches about an injury-prone knee kept Cox out of basketball until his senior year. Capping off an accolade filled senior year, Cox placed second in the hammer throw at the NCAA Championships in 1925. Although All-American recognition was not awarded in the 1920s, Cox would have been named a track and field All-American applying today’s standards.
After his playing days Cox coached football, most notably at Tulane and Oklahoma State. Some of his accomplishments included becoming the only Tulane football coach of more than two seasons who never failed to field a winning team and taking Tulane to the first ever Sugar Bowl, beating Pop Warner’s Temple team. He retired from coaching to work as Personnel Director at Wheeling Steel in Wheeling, W. V. Ted Cox passed away in 1989.
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