James F. McCarthy was an American football and baseball coach.
He was the first head football coach a Manhattan College and he held that position for three seasons, from 1925 until 1927.
[1] Manhattan College played intercollegiate football for the first time in 1924 and produced a record of 4–4 that year, but there was no declared coach.
[2] # denotes interim head coach
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