Earl Smith (coach), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American sports coach
Date of Birth: 27-May-1917
Place of Birth: Micro, North Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 05-Aug-2012
Profession: basketball player, basketball coach, baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Earl Smith (coach)
- Norman Earl Smith (May 27, 1917 – August 5, 2012) was an American coach of many sports at Campbell University and also a basketball and baseball coach at East Carolina University.
- Born in Micro, North Carolina, Smith attended East Carolina and participated in baseball, basketball, and football from his sophomore year through his senior year.
- He resided in Fayetteville, North Carolina until his death on August 5, 2012. He graduated in 1939 and later became a football, basketball, baseball, tennis and cross country coach at Campbell University.
- Under Smith's guidance, Campbell won three straight North Carolina Junior College football championships (1946–48).
- He also led the 1948–49 and 1951–52 basketball teams an overall record of 29–20 including the junior college national tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas. In 1959 Smith returned to ECU to become head coach of the Pirates basketball team.
- He led the team to a record of 53–40 in his four years of coaching.
- In 1963, after finishing his basketball coaching career, Smith turned to the ECU baseball team.
- He led them to a very impressive record of 185–103–2 in nine years.
- Of those 186 victories, the team finished first place in the Southern Conference in four consecutive years (1966–70).
- Smith has baseball's third highest winning percentage at .642. He was inducted into the Pirate Hall of Fame in 1977, and the Campbell University Athletics Hall of Fame in April 1986.
- He later became a professional baseball scout for the San Diego Padres. He died at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in 2012.
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