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Tom Dandelet was a college football coach at Arkansas State and Marshall. From 1922 to 1923, he coached at Arkansas State, where he compiled an 0-13-1 record. Returning to the Tri-State (West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky) area, he played for semi-professional football teams like Armco Steel in Cattletsburg, Ky., and with early National Football League teams like the Ironton (Ohio) Tanks and Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans (today's Detroit Lions organization), while coaching football at his alma mater, the Wonders of Ceredo-Kenova High School in nearby Wayne County, W.Va. From 1931 to 1934, he coached at Marshall, where he compiled an 18-16-2 record despite being underfunded and out-manned often the Buckeye Conference (1925-39), which included the University of Cincinnati, Ohio University, the University of Dayton, Miami (Ohio) University and Ohio Wesleyan. After being released as football coach to make way for the legendary Cam Henderson to assume the Herd football and basketball jobs, Dandelet remained as a professor in the HPER Department at Marshall (Health, Physical Education and Recreation) and was also Dean of Men through 1950 at Marshall College.
