Dave Fuller
| Sport(s) | Baseball, football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1915 |
| Died | September 15, 2009 (aged 94) Gainesville, Florida |
| Playing career | |
| 1933–1937 | Wake Forest |
| Position(s) | Fullback, tailback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1943 | Northwest Missouri State (Asst.) |
| 1947–1976 | Florida (Asst.) |
| Baseball | |
| 1948–1975 | Florida |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 557–354–6 (.611) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| SEC (1952, 1956, 1962) | |
| Records | |
| Winningest coach in Florida Gators history University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame |
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Dave Fuller (1915 – September 15, 2009) was an American college baseball coach who led the Florida Gators baseball team of the University of Florida for twenty-eight seasons.
Fuller attended Wake Forest University in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he played for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football, Demon Deacons basketball and Demon Deacons baseball teams. He was a three-year letterman in all three sports, but achieved his greatest recognition as a fullback and tailback for the Demon Deacons.
After graduating from Wake Forest, Fuller played minor league baseball in the Dixie League and Coastal Plain League. As he repeatedly recounted for friends, his inability to hit the curve ball led to the early end of his professional baseball career. Fuller tried his hand at coaching, first as the head football, basketball and baseball coach at Perquimans County High School in Hertford, North Carolina from 1940 to 1942, and then as an assistant football coach for the backfield at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College in Maryville, Missouri in 1943. After coaching in the U.S. Navy's sports leadership program during World War II, he joined the University of Florida's physical education staff in 1946.
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