Thomas Bayard Young Jr. (June 8, 1907 – March 12, 1973) 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 wi ...

and

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

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in 1943 and at

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from 1946 to 1955, compiling a career college football record of 44–59–4. Young was also the

athletic director An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches an ...

at Western Carolina from 1946 until his retirement in 1969. Young was a native of Monroe, North Carolina. He played college football at North Carolina in 1926 and 1927, where he was an all-

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halfback. Young died at the age of 65 on March 12, 1973, at Baptist Hospital in

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Head coaching record

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