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program is a

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team that represents

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in the

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, a part of the

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. The team has had 29 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1890. Among the coaches in the history at Geneva College include

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members

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and

Cal Hubbard Robert Calvin Hubbard (October 31, 1900 – October 17, 1977) was an American professional football player and Major League Baseball (MLB) umpire. After playing college football at Centenary College and Geneva College, Hubbard played in the N ...

. The current coach is

Geno DeMarco Geno DeMarco is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania Beaver Falls is a city in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 9,005 a ...

who first took the position for the 1993 season. He leads the list with the most games coached and the most total wins. Samuel G. Craig has the highest winning percentage of the coaches at .859, accumulated from 1900 through the 1903 seasons and a total of 32 games. Arthur McKean managed the most tie games with 7.

Key

Coaches

Details

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Archibald Leech

Dr. Archibald W. Leech played football, basketball, and baseball at Geneva College. He was known for his athletic skills and was named "one of the most noted athletes ever graduated" from the school.Cambria County, PA Genealogy
"History of Cambria County, V2 The school suffered one of its largest defeats to

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by a score of 73 to 0. This game was also Penn State's ninth largest all-time margin of victory and total points scored. Leech only coached football for one year at Geneva, but stayed on as a full professor at the college. Leech gained prominence as an educator and businessman in the area of

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, where he also served as

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Graydon Long

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Sports history

=Playing history

= Long played high school football at West high School in

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, as a member of the class of 1908. The 1906 team concluded an undefeated season and the 1907 team produced solid results as well.

=Officiating

= After coaching in the college ranks, Long worked as an official for professional football at the time, primarily working games for the future NFL team

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Joe Banks

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and

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. He worked as a

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for

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and

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Coaching

=Geneva College

= Banks was the 24th head coach at GenevaKenton Times
"Joseph Ada Banks" for two seasons, from 1967 until 1968. His one victory came in the last game of the 1967 season against Bridgewater College by a score of 30 to 13.

=Ohio Northern

= Prior to taking the position at Geneva, he was the head track coach and assistant football coach at

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, from 1960 until 1967. where he completed a "turnaround season" in 1962. After coaching at Geneva and a brief stint at a high school, he would return to Ohio Northern in 1971 for the remainder of his career, where he retired in 2002 as an admissions counselor. He has been credited with recruiting more students than any other person to Ohio Northern. While at Ohio Northern, Banks would regularly hold training sessions for high school athletic administrators on how to run and promote track and field meets as well as how to coach individual events. Ohio Northern honored his contribution to the university by naming their home track meet the "Joe Banks Invitational."

Military service

Banks served in the United States military during

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as a Sergeant with the Third Army's 965th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance company in the Rhineland (

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) and the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in the

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Personal life

Banks earned a

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in education and later a

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from Ohio Northern University. He later completed a

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from

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. He graduated from high school at New Philadelphia in 1937 where he was coached at track & field by

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Dan Frasier

Daniel M. Frasier was named NAIA District 18 Coach of the Year in 1971."Dan Fraiser-Coach of the Year"
''

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'' May 23, 1972 Frasier engineered a turnaround of the program, when the football team went to what was considered a "laughing stock of the district" to an 8-0 start in 1971 (some records show a 7-0 start and losing the last two games). Before being head football coach at Geneva, he was assistant football coach at Geneva under Donald Lederick while simultaneously acting as the head baseball coach. He also played minor league baseball for the

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farm team.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Geneva Adds Dan Frasier" July 9, 1966 Upon retirement from college coaching, he entered the private sector and took a career in

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References

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