Dwight "Dike" Beede
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
January 23, 1903 Youngstown, Ohio |
| Died | December 10, 1972 (aged 69) Elkton, Ohio |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1926 | Westminster (PA) |
| 1934–1936 | Geneva |
| 1938–1972 | Youngstown / Youngstown State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 175–146–20 |
Dwight "Dike" V. Beede (January 23, 1903 – December 10, 19) served as the first head football coach of Youngstown State University (then Youngstown College). He served there from 1937 to 1972. In the course of his entire professional coaching career, Beede counted 175 career wins, 146 losses and 20 ties. In 1941, he invented and introduced the penalty flag, now a common fixture of American football.
Some sources spell his name "Dyke" Beede.
Beede was born in Youngstown, Ohio, a steel-manufacturing center located near the Pennsylvania border. He attended the city's South High School, where he was class president and played football. In his senior year, Beede received a football scholarship to Newberry College, in South Carolina. He later transferred to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he studied structural engineering and played football. While in college, Beede joined the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
As a stand-out player with Judge Walter Steffen's Carnegie squad in the 1920s, Beede made football history when he introduced the famous "spinner play." He served as captain of the Carnegie Tech football team in 1925 and also played basketball.
Beede and his wife Irma had two daughters, Gretchen and Susan, and a son, Ruud. Ruud drowned in 1957.
On December 10, 1972, just a month after having retired from Youngstown State University, Beede died in a drowning accident at Little Beaver Creek near his farm in Elkton, Ohio, located in Columbiana County.
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