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Russell Blunt

1908–2004

United States

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Russell Evans Blunt (April 24, 1908 – January 7, 2004) was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Florida Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Florida Memorial University) in Miami Gardens, Florida for one season, in 1942, Saint Augustine's College (now known as Saint Augustine's University) in Raleigh, North Carolina from 1947 to 1948, and Saint Paul's Polytechnic Institute (later known as Saint Paul's College) in Lawrenceville, Virginia from 1950 to 1952. Beginning in 1955, Blunt coached several sports at Durham, North Carolina's Hillside High School.

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