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Buck Hunt

1891–1927

United States

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John Russell "Buck" Hunt (September 10, 1891 – December 21, 1927) was an American college football coach and educator. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Theological Seminary and College (now known as the Virginia University of Lynchburg) in 1916 and from 1919 to 1921, Tennessee A&I State Normal School for Negroes (now known as Tennessee State University) in 1922, and Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1923. Hunt was born on September 10, 1891, in Annapolis, Maryland, to Josiah and Melvina Hunt.

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