Sport(s) Football, basketball 1928 Appalachian State | 1944–1945 Appalachian State Name Graydon Eggers | |
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Born October 13, 1902
Watauga County, North Carolina ( 1902-10-13 ) Overall 3–6 (football)
6–13 (basketball) Role American football head coach Died January 11, 1994, Crossnore, North Carolina, United States | ||
Graydon Poe Eggers, Sr. (October 13, 1903 – January 11, 1994) was an American college football and college basketball coach and professor of English. He was the first head football coach at Appalachian State Normal School–now known as Appalachian State University–located in Boone, North Carolina. He coached the team for one season, in 1928, compiling a record of 3–6. Eggers was also the head basketball coach at Appalachian State, for one season in 1944–45, tallying a mark of 6–13.
Eggers, a native of Watauga County, North Carolina, was a longtime English professor at Appalachian State University, serving there from 1927 to 1970. He obtained his Ph.D. in English from Duke University in 1935. His specialty was translating Middle English. In 1955 Eggers published a translation of The Owl and the Nightingale, a Middle English poem. In 1971 Appalachian State University dedicated Eggers Residential Hall to Eggers and his brother, Herman Eggers.