In 1951, Coy was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class.

It was reportedly "a familiar sight when Ted would burst through an enemy defense, his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband.

"[4] George Trevor once described Coy as "a leonine figure, with a pug nose and a shock of yellow hair like a Gloucester fisher girl.

[4] Coy was named a first-team All-American in all three years in which he played varsity football at Yale.

[4] As a senior in 1909, Coy led the Yale team to an undefeated 10–0 record, outscoring opponents 209–0.

Coy missed the first four games of the 1909 season after undergoing an appendectomy, but he returned to lead Yale to victories over Army, Princeton, and Harvard.

It was the first time Yale had been held scoreless at home,[13] and the south's first great showing against an Eastern power.

He also wrote football articles for the New York World, Boston Globe, San Francisco Herald, and St. Nicholas Magazine.

At the time, Coy was employed by a New York City insurance firm, Smythe, Sanford & Gerard, and was one of the most admired men in the United States.

Eagels sued for divorce in February 1928 on grounds of cruelty, alleging that Coy had assaulted her, had broken her jaw and threatened her with the words (to) "ruin that beautiful face of yours"(Eagels) in order to stop the forward progress of her movie career.

In August 1928, Coy married his third wife, 21-year-old Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Texas.

Several months after his death, Time magazine ran a story about Coy's widow selling his most prized possessions to a pawnshop:"Into an Oklahoma City pawnshop stepped a pretty young woman to borrow money on a wedding ring, a gold medal, a gold football, a pin of Yale's famed Skull & Bones Society.