Skip Gougler
| Date of birth | August 11, 1894 |
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| Place of birth | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Date of death | July 16, 1962 (aged 67) |
| Place of death | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Position(s) | Halfback, quarterback |
| College | Pittsburgh |
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| 1920 | Duquesne (assistant) |
| 1921–1923 | Lafayette (assistant) |
| 1924–1934 | Pittsburgh (assistant) |
| As player | |
| 1919 | Massillon Tigers |
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Roscoe A. "Skip" Gougler (August 11, 1894 – July 16, 1962) was an American football player and coach, dentist, and professor of dentistry. He played at the halfback and quarterback positions for the Pittsburgh Panthers football teams from 1914 to 1918. He was selected as a second-team All-American in 1918. He also played two years of professional football, including the 1919 season with the Massillon Tigers of the Ohio League. He later coached football and became a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh’s dentistry school.
Gougler was raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He played quarterback for the Harrisburg Central High School football team, where he developed a reputation as “a most illusive [sic] sidestepper.”
After one year at Conway Hall, Gougler enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh where he played four years of football under coach ”Pop” Warner. Gougler was a member of the Pitt Panthers football teams from 1915-1918. He played halfback and quarterback at Pitt. During Gougler’s four seasons at Pitt, the Panthers were undefeated and ran up a 33-game winning streak before losing to Syracuse by a score of 24-3 in 1919. As a senior in 1918, Gougler was selected as a second-team All-American by Robert (Tiny) Maxwell, sports editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pitt's undefeated 1917 team was known as "The Fighting Dentists" because on occasion every position was filled by dental students. The dental students on the 1917 team included Gougler,"Tank" McLarenKaty Easterday,"Jake" Stahl. and Jock Sutherland.
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