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Vashon Eagleson

1898–1933

United States

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Wilson Vashon Eagleson (March 4, 1898 – March 10, 1933) was an American college football coach and professor. He was as the first head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University—in Durham, North Carolina, serving or four seasons, from 1923 to 1926, compiling a record of 4–10–1. Eagleson earned a degree in chemistry from Indiana University Bloomington in 1922.

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