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Skip Stahley

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Jacob Neil Skip Stahley, who lived from 1908 to 1992, was an American college football coach and athletic director. Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, he was an outstanding athlete at Lebanon High School and then played football at Penn State, earning honorable mention All-American honors, while also captaining the basketball and lacrosse teams. He was head football coach at the University of Delaware in 1934, Brown University from 1941 to 1943, George Washington University from 1946 to 1947, the University of Toledo from 1948 to 1949 and the University of Idaho from 1954 to 1961, and he also served as an assistant at Western Maryland, Harvard and Washington and as backfield coach of the NFL Chicago Cardinals. He was athletic director at Idaho from 1960 to 1964 and then at Portland State, and he is a member of the Idaho Sports Hall of Fame.

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was an American college football coach and athletic director
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    Stahley (September 22, 1908
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    was an American college football coach and athletic director
  • Plays: American Football, Early years
    where he majored in English and played football, earning honorable mention All-American honors.
  • Plays: Lacrosse, Early years, lacrosse
    A three-sport letterman, Stahley also captained the basketball and lacrosse teams for the Nittany Lions.
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