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{{Short description|American baseball coach}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Charles Doak
| image = Charles Doak 1918.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Doak pictured in 1918
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|10|7}}
| birth_place = [[Guilford County, North Carolina]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|4|21|1884|10|7}}
| death_place = [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| coach_sport1 = Basketball 
| coach_years2 = 1914–1916
| coach_team2 = [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|North Carolina]]
| coach_years3 = 1916–1918
| coach_team3 = [[Duke Blue Devils men's basketball|Trinity (NC)]]
| coach_sport4 = Baseball
| coach_years5 = 1915–1916
| coach_team5 = [[North Carolina Tar Heels baseball|North Carolina]]
| coach_years6 = 1924–1939
| coach_team6 = [[NC State Wolfpack baseball|NC State]]
| overall_record = 
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = Baseball<br />2 South Atlantic Conference (1924, 1928)
| awards = 
| coaching_records = 
}}
'''Charles Glenn "Chick" Doak''' (October 7, 1884 – April 21, 1956) coached baseball at [[North Carolina State University]] from 1924 to 1939 where he accumulated 145 wins, 131 losses, 6 ties.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/baseball/highlights.html# |title='Wolfpack Baseball: A History of Achievement' Exhibition, 2006: NCSU Libraries |access-date=2008-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206204222/http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/baseball/highlights.html |archive-date=2012-02-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Doak also played in the minor leagues and coached several college teams, such as at [[Guilford College]], the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]], and [[Duke University|Trinity College]].

Doak led the [[NC State Wolfpack|Wolfpack]] (the players were known as the "Doakmen") to the South Atlantic Championship only twice in his 16 seasons as coach (1924 and 1928), but his view that "the best defense is a hell of an offense" made for exciting games. Doak remained on NC State's physical education faculty until 1955. The baseball field to the east of Reynolds Coliseum (a space now occupied by the Coliseum parking deck) was named in his honor, and the name persisted to the [[Doak Field|field]]s current site. His sons, Charles and Robert, both played baseball for NC State.

==Coach at North Carolina==
After [[Nathaniel Cartmell]] was fired as the [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball]] coach in 1914 for playing dice with known gamblers, Doak took over as the second head coach for the Tar Heels.<ref name="Powell 2005 11">{{harvnb|Powell|2005|p=11}}</ref>  Doak was generally more interested in coaching baseball and was not fully focused on coaching basketball.<ref name="Powell 2005 11"/>  During the 1915–16 season, it was too difficult to get referees and so on some occasions Doak would actually referee games that the Tar Heels were playing.<ref>{{harvnb|Rappoport|2002|p=7}}</ref>
Doak was fairly successful as the head coach of the basketball team, but stepped down as head coach after the 1916 season to be replaced by [[Howell Peacock]].<ref>{{harvnb|Powell|2005|p=12}}</ref>

==Death==
Doak died of a heart attack in 1956.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Ex-State Coach Chick Doak Dies |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qWdgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CnINAAAAIBAJ&pg=2014,4446642 |work=[[Star-News]] |location=[[Wilmington, North Carolina]] |date=April 22, 1956 |page=4-C |access-date=April 3, 2017 |via=[[Google News]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FPJP-2ZY|title=FamilySearch.org|accessdate=18 June 2023}}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===Basketball===
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name       = [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|North Carolina Tar Heels]]
 | conference = Independent
 | startyear  = 1914
 | endyear    = 1916
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = 1914–15
 | name         = North Carolina
 | overall      = 6–10
 | conference   = 
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 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = 1915–16
 | name         = North Carolina
 | overall      = 12–6 
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = North Carolina
 | overall    = 18–16<ref name="ReferenceA">2007-08 North Carolina men's basketball media guide 2007, p.177</ref> 
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name       = [[Duke Blue Devils men's basketball|Trinity Blue and White]]
 | conference = Independent
 | startyear  = 1916
 | endyear    = 1918
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = 1916–17
 | name         = Trinity
 | overall      = 20–4 
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | season       = 1917–18
 | name         = Trinity
 | overall      = 10–5
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Trinity
 | overall    = 30–9<ref>{{cite web|title=2014-15 Duke Men's Basketball Media Guide|url=http://www.goduke.com/fls/4200/media-guides/mbb/2014-15/Records%20146-168.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=4200|access-date=15 May 2015|page=159}}</ref>
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
 | overall = 48–25
 | legend  = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
* {{citation|title=University of North Carolina Basketball|first=Adam|last=Powell|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2005|isbn=0-7385-4150-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YhGeDCjS7wC}}
* {{citation|title=Tales from the Tar Heel Locker Room|first=Ken|last=Rappoport|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|year=2002|isbn=1-58261-489-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WHcMGVwNzgkC&q=Charles+Doak+basketball}}
* {{citation|title=2007-08 North Carolina men's basketball media guide|publisher=UNC Athletic Communications|url=http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/100407aaj.html|access-date=2008-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010200034/http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/100407aaj.html|archive-date=2008-10-10|url-status=dead}}

==External links==
* [https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mss00393 Guide to the Lucia Messina Collection on Charles "Chick" Doak <small>1958, 2013</small>]
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