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Walter S. Davis
1905–1979
United States
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Biography
Walter Strother Davis (August 9, 1905 – October 17, 1979) was an American football coach and college administrator. He was the second president of Tennessee State University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1943 to 1968.
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