G. O. Dietz | |
Birth Date: | 17 August 1872 |
Birth Place: | Iroquois, Illinois, U.S. |
Death Place: | Moline, Illinois, U.S.[1] |
Alma Mater: | University of Michigan |
Player Years1: | 1897–1898 |
Player Team1: | Northwestern |
Player Years2: | 1900–1901 |
Player Team2: | Northwestern |
Player Positions: | Back |
Coach Years1: | 1902 |
Coach Team1: | Drake |
Coach Years2: | 1903 |
Coach Team2: | Kansas State |
Overall Record: | 7–7–2 |
Godlove Orth Dietz[2] [3] (August 17, 1872 – March 23, 1929) was an American college football player, coach, lawyer, and judge. He served as the head football coach at Drake University in 1902 and Kansas State Agricultural College—now known as Kansas State University—in 1903, compiling a career college football record of 7–7–2.
Dietz graduated from the Grand Prairie Seminary in Onarga, Illinois. Dietz then attended Northwestern University, which was affiliated with the seminary. At Northwestern, Dietz played as a back for four seasons for the football team. Also starting on the team during three of these years was Dietz's brother, Cyrus E. Dietz. G. O. Dietz graduated from Northwestern with a law degree, and was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity along with his brother Cyrus.
Dietz got his first head coaching job as the sixth head football coach at Drake University located in Des Moines, Iowa for the 1902 season. His record at Drake was 4–3–1. The last game of his season at Drake would provide his career coaching highlight with at 47–0 pounding over Grinnell College on November 26, 1902.[4]
The next year, Dietz was named the eighth head football coach for the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan, Kansas for the 1903 season, succeeding his brother Cyrus in the job. His record at Kansas State was 3–4–1.
Dietz and his brother subsequently went into the practice of law together, opening a law firm in Moline, Illinois, with Burton Peek. In the 1920s, Dietz served as a judge on the Moline City Court.