Harry Hartsell

Who was Harry Hartsell?

Harry Hartsell was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at North Carolina State University—renamed from North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1918—for four seasons, in 1917 and again from 1921 to 1923, compiling a record of 16–18–4. He was also the head basketball coach at NC State for four seasons, tallying a mark of 34–32, and the head baseball coach at the school for five seasons, amassing a record of 52–37–4. Hartsell was born on June 29, 1890 in Asheville, North Carolina. He died at the age of 64 on February 14, 1955 at a hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia.