American football coach
Dick Tressel (born c. 1948)[1] is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, from 1978 to 2000, compiling a record of 124–102–2. Tressel was also the athletic director at Hamline from 1979 to 2000. He then moved on to Ohio State University where he worked as an assistant football coach under his brother, Jim Tressel, from 2001 to 2010. Both brothers played college football for their father, Lee Tressel, at Baldwin Wallace University.
Tressel first head coaching position was at Gibsonburg High School in Gibsonburg, Ohio, where he coached future Ohio State All-American Ted Smith.
Head coaching record
| Year
|
Team
|
Overall
|
Conference |
Standing
|
Bowl/playoffs
|
| Hamline Pipers (Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1978–2000)
|
| 1978
|
Hamline
|
5–4–1 |
3–4–1 |
6th |
|
| 1979
|
Hamline
|
5–5 |
3–5 |
6th |
|
| 1980
|
Hamline
|
5–4 |
5–3 |
T–3rd |
|
| 1981
|
Hamline
|
3–7 |
2–6 |
T–6th |
|
| 1982
|
Hamline
|
6–4 |
5–3 |
T–4th |
|
| 1983
|
Hamline
|
6–4 |
6–3 |
3rd |
|
| 1984
|
Hamline
|
9–0–1 |
8–0–1 |
1st |
|
| 1985
|
Hamline
|
4–6 |
4–5 |
T–5th |
|
| 1986
|
Hamline
|
4–6 |
4–5 |
T–6th |
|
| 1987
|
Hamline
|
6–4 |
5–4 |
T–4th |
|
| 1988
|
Hamline
|
9–1 |
8–1 |
T–1st |
|
| 1989
|
Hamline
|
6–4 |
5–4 |
T–4th |
|
| 1990
|
Hamline
|
7–3 |
6–3 |
T–3rd |
|
| 1991
|
Hamline
|
5–4 |
4–4 |
6th |
|
| 1992
|
Hamline
|
6–4 |
5–4 |
T–4th |
|
| 1993
|
Hamline
|
7–3 |
6–3 |
T–3rd |
|
| 1994
|
Hamline
|
8–2 |
7–2 |
2nd |
|
| 1995
|
Hamline
|
7–3 |
6–3 |
T–3rd |
|
| 1996
|
Hamline
|
5–5 |
4–5 |
T–5th |
|
| 1997
|
Hamline
|
5–5 |
4–5 |
7th |
|
| 1998
|
Hamline
|
2–8 |
2–7 |
T–7th |
|
| 1999
|
Hamline
|
2–8 |
1–8 |
T–8th |
|
| 2000
|
Hamline
|
2–8 |
2–7 |
8th |
|
| Hamline:
|
124–102–2 |
105–94–2 |
|
| Total: |
124–102–2 |
|
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth
|
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