Samuel Dunning

Samuel Wadsworth Dunning (May 10, 1859 – April 19, 1915) was an American football, and military tactics instructor. He was an 1880 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

He served as the head football coach at Utah State University–then known as Utah Agricultural College–in 1898, where he was also serving as an instructor of military science and tactics while stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah.