Tennessee State University Football, '05, CoachJWebster1

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Profile: Ed Temple*
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Edward Temple was born and educated in Harrisburg, Pa. He was a member of the junior high school band and later played football, totally unknown to his parents, who believed him to be a band member when he was actually on the football team. He made the high school varsity team in football, basketball and track. Later in high school, he dropped music as an extracurricular activity and continued sports. He competed in the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia as a sprinter in the mile relay and ran at Penn State as part of the state high school championships.
Temple came to Tennessee State University in Nashville in 1946 with Tom Harris, a coach from his hometown of Harrisburg. Harris was coming to Nashville to start a men and women's track team at what was then Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial College, under the administration of Dr. Walter S. Davis. Temple knew Coach Harris well and had lived across the street from the woman Harris would eventually marry, He attended Tennessee A & I from 1947 to 1950.
Shortly after Temple's graduation, Coach Harris left Tennessee A & I to become a football and track coach and athletic director in Virginia. Since Temple had graduated with a B.S. in physical education the previous term and was seeking employment as a football or basketball coach. Harris recommended him as the coach of the Tennessee A & I women's track team.

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