Career
He served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1943 and at Western Carolina University from 1946 to 1955, compiling a career college football record of 44–59–4. Young was also the athletic director at Western Carolina from 1946 until his retirement in 1969. Young was a native of Monroe, North Carolina.
He played college football at North Carolina in 1926 and 1927, where he was an all-Southern Conference halfback.
Young died at the age of 65 on March 12, 1973 at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
