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Bill Burghardt

1912–1981

United States

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William Franklin "Burgie" Burghardt (February 4, 1912 – August 8, 1981) was an American football and basketball coach, athletics administrator, 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 from 1937 to 1941 and Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri for one season, in 1942. Burghardt was also the head basketball coach at North Carolina Central from to 1937 to 1940.

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