Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and how they changed more than a game at UNC
Posted Oct 26, 2016
In 1966, Chapel Hill was still a town rooted in the Old South, UNC was a rather conservative campus and Dean Smith was no more than the coach who replaced Frank McGuire, whose legendary Tar Heels from New York had beaten Wilt Chamberlain for a national basketball championship. And Charlie Scott was a young man from a broken home in Harlem.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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