Tom Dandelet

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Tom Dandelet
Sport(s) Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born (1897-08-01)August 1, 1897
Faribault, Minnesota
Died March 30, 1950(1950-03-30) (aged 52)
Cabell County, West Virginia
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
19221923
19311934

Basketball
19311935

First District Agricultural
Marshall


Marshall
Head coaching record
Overall 18293 (college football)
4335 (college basketball)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football
1 WVIAC (1931)

Thomas Edward Dandelet was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at college football coach at the First District Agricultural Schoolnow Arkansas State Universityfrom 1922 to 1923 and at Marshall Collegenow Marshall Universityfrom 1931 to 1934, compiling a career college football record of 18293. Dandelet was also the head basketball coach at Marshall from 1931 to 1935, tallying a mark of 4335.

Career

From 1922 to 1923, Dandelet coached at the First District Agricultural School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he compiled an 0131 record. Returning to the Tri-State (West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky) area, Dandelet played for semi-professional football teams like Armco Steel in Cattletsburg, Kentucky, 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, West Virginia.

From 1931 to 1934, Dandelet coached at Marshall, where he compiled an 18162 record despite being underfunded and out-manned often in the Buckeye Conference, which included the University of Cincinnati, Ohio University, the University of Dayton, Miami University and Ohio Wesleyan University. After being released as football coach to make way for Cam Henderson to assume the Herd football and basketball jobs, Dandelet remained as a professor in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department and was also Dean of Men through 1950 at Marshall College.

He died of heart disease in 1950.[1]

Head coaching record

College football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
First District Aggies (Independent) (1922–1923)
1922 First District Agricultural 07
1923 First District Agricultural 061
First District Agricultural: 0131
Marshall Thundering Herd (West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1931–1932)
1931 Marshall 63 41 1st
1932 Marshall 621
Marshall Thundering Herd (Buckeye Conference / West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1933–1934)
1933 Marshall 351
1934 Marshall 36
Marshall: 18162
Total: 18293
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title

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