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How UNC got their coaches: weird stories from the early days of college sports

As we’ve talked about in our various posts detailing North Carolina Tar Heels athletic history, the early days of college sports were very weird, especially when it comes to coaches.

So many of them coached multiple sports, spent just one year in Chapel Hill, or have some other odd circumstance surrounding their career at UNC. Here are some of the most interesting.

Some of the stranger stories are those of the first ever people to coach at the school.

North Carolina’s first ever football coach, Hector Cowan, was an star player at Princeton, who came down and coached the Carolina team DURING his playing career.