Jacob Neil "Skip" Stahley was an American college football coach and athletic director.
13 Facts About Skip Stahley
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Skip Stahley served as the head coach at the University of Delaware in 1934, Brown University from 1941 to 1943, George Washington University from 1946 to 1947, the University of Toledo from 1948 to 1949, and the University of Idaho from 1954 to 1961.
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Skip Stahley graduated in 1931 and later earned a master's degree from Columbia University.
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Skip Stahley served in the US Navy in San Diego during World War II, and then coached in Washington, DC at George Washington University, with a record in 1946 and 1947.
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Skip Stahley briefly returned to the West Coast in March 1948 as the backfield coach at the University of Washington in Seattle under new head coach Howie Odell.
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Skip Stahley returned to Seattle in 1950 as backfield coach at Washington for three seasons under Odell, where he mentored notable Huskies Hugh McElhenny and Don Heinrich.
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Skip Stahley left the Huskies to coach in the National Football League as the backfield coach with the Chicago Cardinals under head coach Joe Stydahar.
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Skip Stahley quickly returned to college football in February 1954 as the head coach at Idaho at an annual salary of $9,000.
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Idaho's only conference victory under Skip Stahley came in his first season: the winless Vandals surprised and shut out neighbor Washington State in Pullman in the Battle of the Palouse in 1954.
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When Idaho athletic director Bob Gibb left in 1960, Skip Stahley took over those duties in July for four years.
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Skip Stahley handled both jobs for a year and a half, then stepped down under pressure as football coach in January 1962.
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Skip Stahley is a member of the Idaho Sports Hall of Fame, the Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame, and the National Association of Collegiate athletic directors Hall of Fame.
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Skip Stahley lived in the building, and he and a couple of companions were outside at the base of the fire escape to encounter him.