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David M. Waters

1897–1981

United States

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David M. Waters (January 5, 1897 – August 4, 1981) was an American college football and college basketball coach and educator. He served as the head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University–in Durham, North Carolina, for one season, in 1927, and Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri from 1929 to 1931. Waters was born in Savannah, Georgia.

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