Dennis K. Stanley
Dean Dennis K. Stanley, College of Physical Education, Health & Recreation, University of Florida, circa 1958.
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| Sport(s) | Football, tennis, track and field |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
April 14, 1906 Aylesbury, England |
| Died | May 29, 1983 (aged 77) Gainesville, Florida |
| Playing career | |
| 1926–1928 | Florida |
| Position(s) | End |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1929 | Daytona Beach High |
| 1930 | Andrew Jackson High |
| 1931–1932 | Florida (Asst.) |
| 1933–1935 | Florida |
| 1936–1938 | Florida (Asst./Ends) |
| 1939–1946 | Duke (Asst./Ends) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 14–13–2 (football) 54–12 (tennis) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Honorable mention All-Southern (1928) University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame |
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Dennis Keith Stanley, Sr. (April 14, 1906 – May 29, 1983), nicknamed Dutch Stanley, was an American education professor, university administrator and intercollegiate sports coach. Stanley was a native of England, but graduated from high school in Florida. He was a standout college football player for the University of Florida football teams of the late 1920s, and later returned to his alma mater as a professor and coach, and ultimately as the long-time dean of the College of Health and Human Performance.
Dennis Stanley was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England on Easter Sunday 1906, the youngest of seven children. The Stanley family emigrated to Canada when he was a child, first to Winnipeg, Manitoba, then to Fort William, Ontario. When he was 12 years old, the family moved to Umatilla and then Ocala, Florida. He attended Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida, where he was an all-state end and team captain of the Hillsborough Terriers high school football and basketball teams. His mother died when he was 17, but he worked nights at The Tampa Tribune office, and managed to graduate from high school in 1924. With the help of a civil engineer, Henry Freeman, for whom he had been working on a surveying crew, Stanley scraped together enough money to go to the University of Florida, where Freeman was an alumnus.
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