David Beckman

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David Beckman (Born June 8, 1938) is a former Canadian Football League head coach. Married to Megan Wheeler

Beckman began coaching as an assistant at his alma mater Baldwin-Wallace. From there he coach at University of Evansville and spent 1973-1978 with the Iowa Hawkeyes.

He spent the next six years in the front office of the Cleveland Browns. He moved to the San Diego Chargers in 1985 where he spent two season in the personnel office.

During his first season as Director of Player Personnel of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, he was promoted to head coach with six games remaining in the season. He finished with a 2-4 record. He began the 1991 season as head coach, but was replaced after going winless in the team's first eight games. He was replaced by John Gregory, who had been fired by the Saskatchewan Roughriders earlier that season.