Lowell Potter "Red" Dawson (December 20, 1906 – June 10, 1983) was an
American football coach for the
University of Pittsburgh Panthers and the
Tulane Green Wave at the collegiate level and the
AAFC's Buffalo Bills
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at the professional level. He was a native of
River Falls, Wisconsin.
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He learned the craft of football coaching at the
University of Minnesota under
Bernie Bierman, his former coach at Tulane. At
Pitt
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**Pitt Panthers, the athletic teams of the University of Pittsburgh
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he coached future
Pro Football Hall of Famer
Joe Schmidt and won
Pittsburgh's "Dapper Dan" sports award in 1952. Dawson's greatest successes as a coach, however, were with Tulane and Buffalo. His 1939 Tulane squad went through the season undefeated before a disappointing loss to
Texas A&M in the
Sugar Bowl
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. In 1948 his Buffalo Bills team captured the AAFC Eastern Division title in a playoff against the
Baltimore Colts
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, though they ultimately lost the AAFC Championship Game to the
Cleveland Browns. Dawson's final win–loss record was 36–19–4 at Tulane, 9–11–1 at Pittsburgh, and 19–25–4 at Buffalo.
Head coaching record
College
Professional
References
External links
Pro Football Reference statistics*
1906 births
1983 deaths
American football quarterbacks
Michigan State Spartans football coaches
Minnesota Golden Gophers football coaches
Pittsburgh Panthers football coaches
Tulane Green Wave football coaches
Tulane Green Wave football players
All-Southern college football players
Players of American football from Minneapolis
Sports coaches from Minneapolis
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