Tuck Woolum is a former
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...
player and coach. He served as the head football coach at
Union College
Union College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, ...
in
Barbourville, Kentucky
Barbourville is a home rule-class city in Knox County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,165 at the 2010 census, down from 3,589 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Knox County. The city was formally established by ...
from 1994 to 1998, compiling a record of 20–29–1.
Woolum played
college football as a
quarterback
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for the
Eastern Kentucky Colonels
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. He was the starting quarterback when the team won the
1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
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Head coaching record
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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Eastern Kentucky Colonels football coaches
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Western Carolina Catamounts football coaches
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