Claim: Ruffin McNeill, a former defensive back for East Carolina, is the current special assistant to the head coach in NC State Wolfpack football team represents North Carolina State University. which played its first football game against a team from the Raleigh Male Academy in the 1940s.
Evidence: NC State (then known as The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts) played its first football game against a team from the Raleigh Male Academy on March 12, 1892 in what is now Pullen Park. 
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