Career
He served as the head football coach at the University of Virginia for one season in 1919, compiling a record of 2–5–2. Coleman was born in 1893 in Stanford, Kentucky. Coleman later practiced law in Louisville as a partner in the firm Coleman & White.
He served as county attorney for Jefferson County, Kentucky from 1927 to 1934.
He was also active in the Louisville-Jefferson County Republican organization. He died in 1972.