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Edward Haygood Adams

1910 – 1958

American college football and basketball coach

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Lived 1910 – 1958 (aged 48). Edward Haygood Adams was an American basketball coach and american football player.

Edward Haygood Adams (August 17, 1910 – October 22, 1958) was an American football and basketball coach.

Biography Adams was born on August 17, 1910, in Grambling, Louisiana. He was the son of Martha and Charles P. Adams, founder and first President of Grambling University. He attended Tuskegee University.

Adams served as the sixth head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University—in Durham, North Carolina, and he held that position for the 1936 season, compiling a record of 4–3–1. Adams was also the head basketball coach at North Carolina Central for one season in 1936–37, at Tuskegee University from 1937 to 1949, and at Texas Southern University from 1949 to 1958, amassing a career college basketball coaching record of 464–135.

Adams died of a stroke on October 22, 1958, at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Houston, Texas.

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Works A Comparative Anthropometric Study of Hard Labor during Youth as a Stimulator of Physical Growth of Young Colored Women in Research Quarterly of the American Association for Health and Physical Education

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Who was Edward Haygood Adams?

American college football and basketball coach (1910-1958)

When was Edward Haygood Adams born?

Edward Haygood Adams was born on 17 August 1910 in Grambling.

When did Edward Haygood Adams die?

Edward Haygood Adams died on 22 October 1958 in Houston.

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Edward Haygood Adams was a basketball coach and american football player.

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Edward Haygood Adams was American.

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