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

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. Adams served as the sixth head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University—in

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, 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

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

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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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