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{{Short description|American football player and coach (1935–2009)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
|image=CoachGeneCox.jpg
|caption=Coach Gene Cox
|birth_date=1934
|birth_place=[[Lake City, Florida]]
|death_date={{death date|2009|3|30}}
|player_years1=1954&ndash;1955
|player_team1=[[Florida State Seminoles football|Florida State]]
|coach_team1=[[Leon High School]]
|coach_years1=1963&ndash;1990
}}
'''Gene Calvin Cox''' was a football coach at [[Leon High School]] in [[Tallahassee, Florida]], [[United States]].  Over his 38-year career at four schools, his teams won 313 games, a feat that has not been duplicated as of 2006. In 1988, he was inducted into the State of Florida Sports Hall of Fame. In 1998, the City of Tallahassee renamed the local high school football stadium Gene Cox Stadium.<ref>[http://www.leonhighfootball.com/PDF/garnetandold.pdf Biography of Gene Cox] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710060531/http://www.leonhighfootball.com/PDF/garnetandold.pdf |date=2007-07-10 }}</ref>
Cox received his bachelor's degree from [[Florida State University]] in 1956 after playing on the 1954 and 1955 Florida State Seminole football teams.
He died on March 30, 2009, at age 74.<ref>http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20090331/NEWS01/903310311</ref>
==Head coaching record==
{| class="wikitable"
!Yea
!Team
!Record
!Playoff Result
|-
|1963
|[[Leon High School]]
|4-6-0
|
|-
|1964
|Leon High School
|8-3-0
|
|-
|1965
|Leon High School
|6-4-0
|
|-
|1966
|Leon High School
|6-3-2
|
|-
|1967
|Leon High School
|10-1-0
|
|-
|1968
|Leon High School
|6-3-1
|
|-
|-bgcolor="#FFFF00"
|1969
|Leon High School
|13-0-0
|State Champions
|-
|1970
|Leon High School
|11-1-0
|
|-
|1971
|Leon High School
|6-4-0
|
|-
|1972
|Leon High School
|12-1-0
|State Runner-Up
|-
|1973
|Leon High School
|9-1-1
|
|-
|-bgcolor="#FFFF00"
|1974
|Leon High School
|13-0-0
|State Champions
|-
|1975
|Leon High School
|12-2-0
|State Runner-Up
|-
|1976
|Leon High School
|7-3-0
|
|-
|1977
|Leon High School
|8-3-0
|
|-
|1978
|Leon High School
|8-3-0
|
|-
|1979
|Leon High School
|9-2-0
|
|-
|1980
|Leon High School
|9-1-0
|
|-
|1981
|Leon High School
|11-1-0
|
|-
|1982
|Leon High School
|11-1-0
|
|-
|1983
|Leon High School
|7-4-0
|
|-
|1984
|Leon High School
|10-1-0
|
|-
|1985
|Leon High School
|10-1-0
|
|-
|1986
|Leon High School
|7-3-0
|
|-
|1987
|Leon High School
|7-3-0
|
|-
|1988
|Leon High School
|9-2-0
|
|-
|1989
|Leon High School
|3-7-0
|
|-
|1990
|Leon High School
|6-4-0
|
|-
!Overall Record
!
!238-68-4
!
|-
|}
==References==
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[[Category:1935 births]]
[[Category:2009 deaths]]
[[Category:Florida State Seminoles football players]]
[[Category:High school football coaches in Florida]]
[[Category:Players of American football from Lake City, Florida]]
[[Category:Coaches of American football from Florida]]
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