Charles William Tate (February 20, 1919 – June 10, 1996) was an American football player and coach.

Charlie Tate was born in the small town of Tracy City, Tennessee,[citation needed] and later attended Julia E. Landon High School in Jacksonville, Florida.

[citation needed] After graduating high school, he was selected to the United States national baseball team organized by Leslie Mann that played in the inaugural 1938 Amateur World Series, which became retroactively known as the first international baseball world championship.

Tate's departure from Miami was surrounded by controversy and attracted national media attention when he abruptly resigned as the Hurricanes' athletic director and head football coach after the second game of the 1970 football season.

When interviewed at the ESPN Club in Orlando, Florida, Foreman, who went on to have a great career in the National Football League for the Minnesota Vikings, said of Tate, "He had faith in me, as a black athlete in the South during that tumultuous time, and I will never forget him.