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Giles O. Wright
1899–1974
United States
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Biography
Giles Owens "Unc" Wright (November 13, 1899 – July 22, 1974) was an American football, basketball, and track coach, college athletics administrator, and educator. He served as the head football coach at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, from 1942 to 1946, and Texas College in Tyler, Texas, for one season, in 1956. Wright graduated from high school in Baldwin, Kansas, in 1918.
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