David L . Dunlap David Lewis Dunlap ( December 7 , 1877 – July 9 , 1954 ) was an American football player and coach of football , basketball , and baseball , college athletics administrator , and physician . He played football for the University of Michigan ' s " Point - a - Minute " teams from 1901 to 1903 and 1905 . Dunlap was the head football coach and athletic director at Kenyon College in 1906 , at the University of North Dakota from 1907 to 1911 , and at Allegheny College in 1912 . He also coached basketball and baseball at North Dakota and basketball at Allegheny . Early years . Dunlap was born in Iowa in 1877 . His father , James B . Dunlap , was a farmer who immigrated to the United States from Ireland as a boy in 1847 . Dunlap ' s mother , Clara M . Dunlap , was a New York native . They settled in Hazel Green Township , Delaware County , Iowa , near Hopkinton , Iowa . Dunlap had five older brothers and two older sisters . Dunlap attended college at Lenox College in Hopkinton , Iowa . He received a B . S . degree from Lenox in 1901 . University of Michigan . After graduating from Lenox , Dunlap enrolled in the Department of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Michigan . He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1906 . While attending medical school , Dunlap played football for the Michigan Wolverines football team for four years from 1901 to 1903 and 1905 . He appeared in five games ( Case , Albion , Beloit , Ohio Normal , Ferris ) at right end ( and was a starter in one game ) for the 1903 team . Two years later , he was a starter at halfback in four games ( including the Kalamazoo and Case games ) for the 1905 team . During the 1905 season , a controversy developed as to Dunlap ' s eligibility . He had participated in athletics at Lenox College , and some questioned whether he had a remaining fourth year of eligibility . A letter was received from the person in charge of athletics at Iowa indicating that the Association of Colleges in Iowa did not consider Lenox to be a college . The conference ruled that Dunlap remained eligible on the ground that Lenox was not a college . Dunlap was also a member of Michigan ' s varsity track team for four years . During the 1905 – 06 academic year , he also served as a student member of the Board of Control in charge of the general supervision of athletic sports at the University of Michigan . Coaching . In the fall of 1906 , Dunlap was hired as the football coach and athletic director at Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio . His 1906 football team tallied a record of 1 – 4 – 2 . After one year at Kenyon , he accepted a similar position at the Orchard Military Academy . From 1908 to 1911 , Dunlap was the head football coach at the University of North Dakota . In four years at North Dakota , he had a record of 14 – 7 – 2 . He also coached North Dakota ' s baseball team to a 3 – 6 – 1 record in 1910 . In August 1912 , Dunlap was hired by Allegheny College as its physical and athletic director . At the time of his hiring , the " Boston Evening Transcript " wrote : " Dr . Dunlap is thirty - four years of age and stands six feet . He was under Yost for three years at Michigan in football , and has also acquired a good reputation as a coach . He also has a record in track . Apart from his all - around ability as physical director , Dr . Dunlap ' s greatest strength seems to be as coach in football and trainer in track . " He later returned to North Dakota as its athletic director . Family and later years . In September 1913 , Dunlap married Lulu Elta Loomis at Ypsilanti , Michigan . In a draft registration card completed in September 1918 , Dunlap indicated that he was living in Highland Park , Michigan with his . He was a self - employed physician with an office in the Kresge Building in Detroit . At the time of the 1920 United States Census , Dunlap was still in private practice as a physician and living with his wife in Highland Park . By that time , they had two sons David ( age 4 ) and Gregg ( age 2 ) . Ten years later , Dunlap and his wife remained living in Highland Park , and Dunlap continued in private practice as a physician . By that time , they had four children , Ward ( age 15 ) , David ( 14 ) , Gregg ( age 13 ) and Jean ( age 6 ) .