Paul Joseph "Skinny" Dashiell (July 16, 1867 – July 6, 1937) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player, coach, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at the

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from 1904 to 1906, compiling a record of 25–5–4. Dashiell played

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

and at Lehigh University, and, in 1893, assisted Josh Hartwell in coaching football at Navy. Dashiell taught chemistry and mathematics at the Naval Academy. A brother, Robert B. Dashiell, was a naval officer and ordnance expert. Dashiell died on July 7, 1937, at the Navy Hospital in

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Head coaching record

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* 1867 births 1937 deaths 19th-century players of American football Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football players Lehigh Mountain Hawks football players Navy Midshipmen football coaches St. John's Red Storm football players United States Naval Academy faculty United States Navy officers {{1900s-collegefootball-coach-stub