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Chuck Martin (American football)

American football player and coach (born 1968)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Charles Thomas Martin is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, a position he has held since the 2014 season. Martin was the head football coach at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan from 2004 to 2009, compiling a record of 74–7. His Grand Valley State Lakers won consecutive NCAA Division II Football Championships in 2005 and 2006 and were runners-up in 2009. Martin was the offensive coordinator at the University of Notre Dame from 2012 to 2013.

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The public source identifies “Chuck Martin (American football)” as american football player and coach (born 1968). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chuck, Martin and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2004, 2009, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chuck, Martin and American providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2004, 2009 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chuck Martin (American football)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.