Biographical details | |
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Born | Arkansas City, Kansas, U.S. | December 27, 1897
Died | April 23, 1982 Carlisle, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 84)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1918–1922 | Southwestern (KS) |
Position(s) | Tackle |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1928–1930 | Sterling |
1935–1941 | Dickinson |
1942 | Lakehurst NAS (assistant) |
1946–1947 | Southwestern (KS) |
Basketball | |
1931–1938 | Brown |
1947–1948 | Southwestern (KS) |
Track | |
1939–1941 | Dickinson |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1939–1942 | Dickinson |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 62–34–8 (football) 60–80 (basketball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 1 CIC (1946) | |
Awards | |
Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, 1974[1] | |
Arthur Daniel Kahler Sr. (December 27, 1897 – April 23, 1982) was an American college football and basketball player and coach. He was listed in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" as only person to coach at two different major colleges at the same time—head basketball coach at Brown University and football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.[1] He later became a coach and athletic director at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.