First Game with Full-Time Head Coach Not Quite Promising in 1896 Football Season Debut

Sat., Sep. 26, 1896

For the first time in program history the Red Devil football team had a full-time coach in Dr. Nathan P. Stauffer. Unfortunately for Stauffer, his era did not start off pleasantly as Dickinson fell to the Carlisle Indian School at home by a wide-margin, 28-6.

Event Type: 
Athletic Events
Dickinson Firsts
Bibliography: 

The History of Football at Dickinson College: 1885-1969 by Wilbur J. Gobrecht (1971)