Jean Gordon "Gene" McMurray (July 25, 1902 – January 2, 1971) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach.
[1] McMurray was also the head basketball coach at East Tennessee State from 1933 to 1947.
He earned a master's degree from Peabody College and Vanderbilt University and a doctorate in physical education from New York University.
McMurray resigned from his coaching post at East Tennessee State in 1947 to head the physical education department at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).
[2] He died on January 2, 1971, in Oxford, Mississippi, after an apparent heart attack.