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Edward A. Dalton

 * ... that E. A. Dalton, the first paid coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team, had a coaching tenure that lasted for ten days in October 1892?
 * Reviewed: Nirjala Ekadashia

Created/expanded by Cbl62 (talk). Self nom at 22:13, 18 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Does "coaching tenure" refer to the length of his entire career? The hook as it is doesn't make sense to me. Abyssal (talk) 15:25, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The term is used to describe the period of time in which he coached the team. It seems like the right word to me, but if you have a different word, I'm open to hearing it. Cbl62 (talk) 21:58, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The word itself is fine, but there's a sentence in the article that says he coached for a season, and a season is a lot longer than ten days, right? Abyssal (talk) 15:15, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * You would normally think so, but not in this case. Iowa's 1892 football season consisted of one game.  Cbl62 (talk) 01:19, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Doesn't the article say he won three games, lost two and had a draw? Abyssal (talk) 15:55, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * You are quite right. Let me sort that out. Cbl62 (talk) 16:56, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Back in the 1890s and early 1900s, coaches were sometimes brought in to train a football team, though they would not necessarily remain and coach each and every game as a game-day coach. This appears to be the case with Dalton.  According to the official program history published by the University of Iowa Alumni Association, "E.A. Dalton, a Princeton graduate, was hired as Iowa’s first professional football coach. He coached for ten days during October."  Note that Dalton had a regular job as a banker in LeMars. Cbl62 (talk) 19:16, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Newness: Good. Length: Good expansion. Policy: No obvious close paraphrasing. Format: Good. QPQ: Good. This is all set to go. Abyssal (talk) 16:59, 6 December 2012 (UTC)