GIL DOBIE (1879-1948)
College Football Coach Who Went Eleven Seasons Before Losing a Game

The record for the most consecutive undefeated seasons by a college football coach had its beginning in North Dakota. Coach Gil Dobie’s teams had gone undefeated for eleven years before one of his teams suffered a loss. His first two years, with no defeats, were at the North Dakota Agricultural College (now NDSU). He then went to the University of Washington where his teams went undefeated for another nine years. By the time Dobie retired in 1938, after 33 years of coaching, his teams were 179-43 with 15 ties for a .780 lifetime winning percentage, one of the best in the history of college football coaching. He is also a charter member of the 1951 college football hall of fame.