Tal Stafford

Tal Stafford

• Bats Unknown, Throws Unknown
• Height Unknown, Weight Unknown
• School North Carolina A&M
• Born January 7, 1890 in Raleigh, NC USA
• Died May 24, 1967 in St. Petersburg, FL USA

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Biographical Information

Tal Stafford was born in Raleigh, NC and was reared in West Raleigh. He graduated from North Carolina A&M in 1912 and was one of the school's leading football and baseball players.

He pitched professionally for the Asheville Moonshiners in 1912 (12-13, 3.70) and the Middlesboro Colonels in 1913 (9-8, 4.85).

After leaving college, Stafford spent a year as athletic director at Horner Military School, taught at the farm-life school in Harmony, NC, taught drainage for a year at the University of Porto Rico, and returned to State College as a teacher. He was appointed alumni secretary by 1920.

In 1917, he coached the first football team at Cary High School. During the World War I period at State College, he also served as athletics director and head coach for football, basketball and baseball. He then coached baseball at North Carolina State University as an assistant in 1918 and the head coach in 1919.