Nat Cartmell Basketball News & Bio
| Name: | Nat Cartmell | | Hometown: | Uniontown, KY | | Born: | January 13, 1883 | | Died: | August 23, 1967 | | Notes: | First UNC Basketball Coach, Olympic Track & Field Medalist (1904, 1908) |
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The stories of Tar Heel coaches who led multiple different teams, Part 1Nat Cartmell was UNC’s first ever men’s basketball coach. The former Olympic medal-winning sprinter had origially come to Chapel Hill to coach track when he...
Sun Jun 20, 2021
How UNC got their coaches: weird stories from the early days of college sportsUNC's first football coach, Hector Cowan, was a star player at Princeton, who came down and coached the Carolina team DURING his playing career. The...
Thu Sep 3, 2020
Tar Heel Firsts: UNC’s first ever basketball coach
Long before Dean Smith coached a game or Michael Jordan ever stepped on a court, there was already a history of basketball at the University...
Wed Jul 10, 2019