Talmage Holt "Tal" Stafford (January 7, 1890 – May 24, 1967) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

and baseball player, coach of football,

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, and

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, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

in 1918, compiling a record of 1–3. Stafford was also head basketball coach at NC State that same academic year, 1918–19, tallying a mark of 11–3, and the baseball coach at the school in the spring of 1919, amassing a record of 12–11. He was also the founding coach of the

Cary High School Cary High School is one of six public high schools in Cary, North Carolina and is part of the Wake County Public School System. In 1907, Cary High School became the first state-funded public high school in North Carolina.Byrd, Thomas M. and Costo ...

football team in

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.Byrd, Thomas M. and Coston, Lisa
Chronology of Cary High School 1896-1996
March 1996. p. 8. Retrieved July 2, 2020.

Head coaching record

Football

Baseball

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