Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Lewis Bowling, speaking on the history of Duke football. Bowling is an author of numerous local and sports history books, including Duke Basketball: A Pictorial History, Alabama Football Tales, North Carolina Central University Athletics – A History of the Eagles, and Wallace Wade: Championship Years at Alabama and Duke. He has also written books about the history of Granville County and Oxford in particular – part of the “Images of America: North Carolina” series of books.
Bowling is on the National Faculty of the United States Sports Academy where he graduated with a Masters Degree in exercise physiology. He has taught Sport Coaching classes in Thailand and Malaysia, and is a faculty member at North Carolina Central University’s Kinesiology Department and has taught Duke Sports History classes at Duke. He is a staff writer for “Go Duke, the Magazine” and writes a weekly history column for the “Oxford Ledger.”
Mark Your Calendar
11/6/24 – Kacie Wallace, Team USA Athlete Ombuds
11/20/24 – Cliff Godwin, Head Baseball Coach, East Carolina University
12/4/24 – George Lewis, Author (Bucky Waters’ memoirs)