Charles Edward Coates Jr. (August 13, 1866 – December 27, 1939) was an American academic, chemist, and college football player and coach.

Coates was also the first head coach of the LSU Tigers football team.

[1] He lost the only game he ever coached in 1893 to a team composed mostly of ex-Tulane players and members of the Southern Athletic Club, 34–0.

His father, Charles E. Coates Sr., practiced medicine in Baltimore after moving from Coatesville, Pennsylvania, which had been settled by and named for his ancestors.

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