Roland "Bo" Farley (March 25, 1907 – April 1, 1999) was an

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, and

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coach. He was the head football, basketball and baseball coach of the

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at the East Carolina Teachers College, now known as

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. Farley was the head football coach from 1936, as well as the head basketball coach at East Carolina for two seasons, 1936–37 and 1939–40, and the school's head baseball coach for five seasons, from 1935 to 1938 and again in 1940.

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