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He
went on to graduate from the University of Tampa where he
was a four-year letterman in football and baseball and was
inducted into the University of Tampa Hall of Fame.
After
college, Pancoast served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Recruit
Training where he played football and baseball and was named
All Service Quarterback. After his military service, Pancoast
was a teacher and coach at Hillsboro High School in Tampa,
Florida.
Pancoast
spent 20 years of his career in the college coaching ranks,
primarily in the Southeastern Conference. He was the Assistant
Coach and Head Coach at the University of Tampa (1959-1963)
and the Assistant Coach and Offensive Coordinator for the
University of Florida (1964-1969). Pancoast was the Quarterback
Coach at Florida the year Steve Spurrier won the 1966 Heismann
Trophy. He was the Assistant Coach and Offensive Coordinator
for the University of Georgia (1970-1972) before being Head
Coach at Memphis State University (1972-1975) and at Vanderbilt
University (1975-1979). At Vanderbilt, he held the record
as the last coach to beat the University of Tennessee in Knoxville
until 2005.
After
leaving the head football coaching job at Vanderbilt in 1979,
Pancoast started a new career in human resources. Pancoast
now owns Pancoast & Associates, a successful employee
benefits company with clients nationwide.
Fred
Pancoast has devoted much of his life to serving those less
fortunate and those who may be in despair. He was instrumental
in establishing the Buffalo Valley Treatment Center, one of
the largest independent indigent alcohol and drug treatment
centers in the southeast and served as the first Chairman
of the Board of Directors.
Pancoast
was also involved in the start up of the "Room In The
Inn" program with Father Charles Strobel and two other
individuals, which has served and housed thousands of homeless
people in the Nashville area.
Pancoast
served as start up Chairman and first Board Chairman of "Pathfinders"
(alcohol and drug indigent treatment center). He designed
and implemented one of the first "employee assistance"
programs for large businesses in Tennessee.
Pancoast
was a board member for Restore Ministries, a YMCA sponsored
program featuring the Twelve Step Program. He chaired the
"Odyssey Group," a group of business executives
and charity organizations, to more effectively assist Father
Strobel's Campus for Human Development which helps graduates
progress into meaningful jobs and careers.
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