Later Life
Cameron was a founder of the Atlantic Coast Conference, chaired the basketball committee of the Southern and ACC conferences for decades, was on the selection committee for the NFL Hall of Fame and was on the governing committee of the Olympics.
Cameron died at the age 86 on November 25, 1988 at his home in Durham, North Carolina.
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