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Willie Burden and Charlie Young are the first African Americans to receive full football scholarships at North Carolina State University.

First African-American football player to make All American

Irwin Holmes was one of the first African Americans to enroll at N.C. State in 1956, and the first to earn an undergraduate degree in 1960. He also became the first African American to captain an athletic team, serving as co-captain of the tennis…

1971 Article in the Technician about the hiring of the first Negro Coach ---Athletic Director Willis Casey.

First African American to captain athletic team