Charles Price

Parker-Gray High, Alexandria (1941)
Football

Charles Price was a 1941 graduate of Parker-Gray High in Alexandria and a 1945 graduate of Virginia State College (now University). At VSU, he lettered in football and track. Charles “Bruiser” Price was an All-CIAA fullback for VSU’s 1945 CIAA Championship team. After college he played professional football with the Los Angeles Dons of the All American Football Conference and Hawaiian Warriors in the Pacific Coast League. In 1946-47 he was an assistant coach at Parker-Gray. For 11 years he head coach in football, basketball and tennis at Lucy Addison High School in Roanoke. Between 1959 and 1964 he was head coach for football and track and assistant coach for basketball at Luther Jackson High School in Fairfax County. The 1964 team had a 9-0 record allowed only 20 points all season and won the VIA Football Championship. He was also voted VIA Football Coach of the Year. In 1965 he became Langley High School’s (Fairfax County) first football coach. With this assignment, he became one of the first African-American head football coaches in the Virginia High School League’s Group 1-A. In 2001 he was elected to the Fairfax County Football Hall of Fame.