Harris Coggeshall
US tennis player
Harris Coggeshall (September 23, 1907 – June 26, 1993) was an American tennis player in the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography
Coggeshall was born September 23, 1907, in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from the Harvard law school and practiced law in Des Moines. He served as chairman of the civil service commission for both the city and the state of Iowa, and as city solicitor for Des Moines. Coggeshall died June 26, 1993.
Tennis career
He played collegiate tennis at Grinnell College in Iowa. In 1929, he won the Central Intercollegiate title (at Chicago) and reached the finals of the Eastern Intercollegiate championships (at Brooklyn, New York). He also played on the basketball team at Grinnell.
Coggeshall was a runner-up in doubles at both the National Clay Court Championships in 1930 and the National Indoor Championship in 1929.
At the Cincinnati Open, he reached the singles final in 1928 before falling to top-seeded Emmett Paré, 6–2, 1–6, 4–6, 4–6.
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