Vashon Eagleson 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 ...

coach. He served as the second head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as

North Carolina Central University North Carolina Central University (NCCU or NC Central) is a public historically black university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by James E. Shepard in affiliation with the Chautauqua movement in 1909, it was supported by private funds from b ...

—in

Durham, North Carolina Durham ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, Durham County. Small portions of the city limits extend into Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County and Wake County, North Carol ...

and he held that position for four seasons, from 1923 to 1926. His coaching record at North Carolina Central was 4–12–1. There is no record of the first football coach at the school, but there is a record of the first football game. In 1922, the year before Eagleson started, North Carolina Central played one football game against

Saint Paul's College, Virginia Saint Paul's College was a private historically black college in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Saint Paul's College opened its doors on September 24, 1888, originally training students as teachers and for agricultural and industrial jobs. By the lat ...

and lost by a score of 25–0.

References

Year of birth missing Year of death missing North Carolina Central Eagles football coaches {{1920s-collegefootball-coach-stub