Salem Wales Goodale (September 16, 1871 – August 22, 1931) 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 ...

coach. He was the head football coach at

Baker University Baker University is a private university in Baldwin City, Kansas. Founded in 1858, it was the first four-year university in Kansas and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Baker University is made up of four schools. The College of Art ...

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, serving from 1890 to 1891, and compiling a record of 6–2–1. Goodale was the first victorious head college football coach in Kansas. He was the head coach at Baker for the first college football game played in the state of Kansas. On November 22, 1890, his team beat the

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by a score of 22–9.

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* 1871 births 1931 deaths Baker Wildcats football coaches Lake Forest College alumni Sportspeople from Marshalltown, Iowa {{1890s-collegefootball-coach-stub