Dick Tressel | |
Birth Place: | Columbus Ohio, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | c. 1969 |
Player Team2: | Baldwin–Wallace |
Player Sport3: | Baseball |
Player Years4: | c. 1969 |
Player Team4: | Baldwin–Wallace |
Player Positions: | Defensive back (football) Second baseman (baseball) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1970 |
Coach Team2: | Florida State (GA) |
Coach Years3: | 1971–1973 |
Coach Team3: | Gibsonburg HS (OH) |
Coach Years4: | 1974–1977 |
Coach Team4: | Wayne State (MI) (DC) |
Coach Years5: | 1978–2000 |
Coach Team5: | Hamline |
Coach Years6: | 2001–2003 |
Coach Team6: | Ohio State (associate DFO) |
Coach Years7: | 2004–2011 |
Coach Team7: | Ohio State (RB) |
Admin Years1: | 1978–2000 |
Admin Team1: | Hamline |
Overall Record: | 124–102–2 (college) |
Championships: | 2 MIAC (1984, 1988) |
Awards: | MIAC Coach of the Year (1984) |
Dick Tressel (born)[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.