death_date coach_team birth_date death_place player_positions player_years coach_sport admin_years image name caption birth_place sport admin_team championships coach_years overall_record player_sport article_title player_team
22 june 1953 muskingum carolina kenyon north carolina -lrb- assistant -rrb- kenyon muskingum north 16 february 1897 wadsworth , ohio tackle -lrb- football -rrb- c. 1920 c. 1920 football basketball 1923 1945 & ndash ; 1936 1944 & ndash ; william f. lange.png bill lange lange north carolina yearbook pictured in '' yackety yack 1943 '' , cleveland , ohio football , basketball muskingum kenyon basketball ; 1928 -rrb- 2 socon regular season -lrb- 1941 , 3 1944 -rrb- 1 socon tournament -lrb- 1940 -rrb- oac regular season -lrb- 1926 & ndash 1923 1943 1944 1923 & ndash ; 1936 1939 & ndash & ; 1944 1944 & ndash ; 1945 ndash ; 1935 1936 & ndash ; 219 & ndash ; 144 -lrb- basketball -rrb- football basketball bill lange -lrb- coach -rrb-
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bill lange -lrb- coach -rrb-

william fisher `` bill '' lange -lrb- february 16 , 1897 -- june 22 , 1953 -rrb- was an american basketball and football player and coach .
he played college football and basketball for wittenberg college from 1918 to 1921 .
during the 1922 -- 23 season , he coached the cleveland rosenblums , an early professional basketball team that was known at the time as `` the fastest basket ball aggregation in this part of the country . ''
from 1923 to 1936 , he was the athletic director and head football and basketball coach at muskingum college in ohio .
he was best known for being the head coach of the north carolina tar heels men 's basketball team from 1939 through 1944 .
