Dana Evans

Dana Evans
Biographical details
Evans from The Arbutus, 1918
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Born	(1874-05-19)May 19, 1874 Massachusetts
Died	November 28, 1924(1924-11-28) (aged 50) Evanston, Illinois
Alma mater	Boston University
Playing career
Football	Boston University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Basketball
1911–1914	Beloit
1917–1919	Indiana
1921–1922	Northwestern
Head coaching record
Overall	46–32

Dana M. Evans (May 19, 1874 – November 28, 1924) was an American athlete, coach and athletics administrator. He played football and baseball at Boston University.^[1] For ten years, he directed the Denver Athletic Club's activities. In 1904, he accepted a position as wrestling, basketball and gymnastics coach at Cornell University.^[2] He was the athletic director and head basketball coach at Beloit College from 1910 to 1914. He was the head basketball coach at Indiana University (1917–18 through 1918–19 seasons) and Northwestern University (1921–22 season). He compiled a career record of 46–32 in six seasons as a head basketball coach. He was also the head track coach at Indiana. He resigned from his position at Indiana in August 1919 to accept a position as the head of the department of physical education at Northwestern.^[3] He suffered a nervous breakdown in September 1924 and died of a heart attack in November 1924.^[2]^[4]^[5]

References

↑ The Athletic Journal, Volume 3, page 18.
1 2 "Purple Director Called Suddenly: Dana M. Evans Dies From Heart Attack". Decatur Review. November 29, 1924.
↑ "Evans To Northwestern". The Washington Post. August 1, 1919.
↑ "Dana Evans Is Confined To Bed". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 12, 1924.
↑ "Dana M. Evans, Athletic Head at N.U., Is Dead". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 29, 1924.

External links

Dana Evans at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball head coaches

James H. Horne (1900–1901)
Phelps Darby (1901–1902)
Willis Coval (1903–1904)
Zora G. Clevenger (1904–1906)
James M. Sheldon (1906–1907)
Ed Cook (1907–1908)
Robert Harris (1908–1909)
John Georgen (1909–1910)
Oscar Rackle (1910–1911)
James Kase (1911–1912)
Art Powell (1912–1913)
Arthur Berndt (1913–1915)
Allan Williford (1915–1916)
Guy Lowman (1916–1917)
Dana Evans (1917–1919)
Ewald O. Stiehm (1919–1920)
George Levis (1920–1922)
Leslie Mann (1922–1924)
Everett Dean (1924–1938)
Branch McCracken (1938–1943)
Harry Good (1943–1946)
Branch McCracken (1946–1965)
Lou Watson (1965–1969)
Jerry Oliver # (1969–1970)
Lou Watson (1970–1971)
Bob Knight (1971–2000)
Mike Davis (2000–2006)
Kelvin Sampson (2006–2008)
Dan Dakich # (2008)
Tom Crean (2008– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball head coaches

Tom Holland (1904–1905)
No team (1905–1906)
Louis Gillesby (1906–1910)
Stuart Templeton (1910–1911)
Charles Hammett (1911–1912)
Dennis Grady (1912–1914)
Fred J. Murphy (1914–1917)
Norman Elliott (1917–1918)
Tom Robinson (1918–1919)
Norman Elliott (1919–1920)
Ray Elder (1920–1921)
Dana Evans (1921–1922)
Maury Kent (1922–1927)
Dutch Lonborg (1927–1950)
Harold Olsen (1950–1952)
Waldo A. Fisher (1952–1957)
Bill Rohr (1957–1963)
Larry Glass (1963–1969)
Brad Snyder (1969–1973)
Tex Winter (1973–1978)
Rich Falk (1978–1986)
Bill Foster (1986–1993)
Ricky Byrdsong (1993–1997)
Kevin O'Neill (1997–2000)
Bill Carmody (2000–2013)
Chris Collins (2013– )

Northwestern Wildcats athletic directors

Otto Miller (1895–1896)
W. J. Bryan (1897–1898)
Charles M. Hollister (1898–1902)
Horace Butterworth (1903–1904)
F. O. Smith (1905–1906)
Louis Gillesby (1906–1910)
Charles Hammett (1910–1913)
Fred J. Murphy (1913–1918)
Charlie Bachman (1919–1920)
Dana Evans (1921–1924)
Kenneth L. Wilson (1925–1945)
Ted Payseur (1945–1956)
Stu Holcomb (1956–1966)
Tippy Dye (1967–1974)
John Pont (1975–1980)
Doug Single (1981–1987)
Bruce Corrie (1987–1993)
Bill Foster (1993–1994)
Rick Taylor (1994–2003)
Mark Murphy (2003–2008)
James J. Phillips (2008– )

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