Jesse Hawley ( American football ) Jesse Barnum Hawley ( March 25 , 1887 – March 21 , 1946 ) was an American football coach . He served as the head coach at the University of Iowa from 1910 to 1915 and at Dartmouth College from 1923 to 1928 , compiling a career college football record of 63 – 28 – 1 . Hawley was the tenth head coach in Iowa football history and led Dartmouth to a national championship in 1925 . Coaching career . Iowa . Hawley was hired by the University of Iowa as its tenth head football coach in 1910 . Iowa had not won the conference title in a decade , and Hawkeye fans were hoping Hawley could turn Iowa ' s fortunes around . School officials also hired Nelson A . Kellogg in 1910 to be Iowa ' s athletic director . Supervision of intercollegiate athletics at Iowa had , since 1900 , also been the responsibility of the head coach . Hawley , however , could focus solely on coaching the football team . Hawley ' s Hawkeyes had a 5 – 2 record in 1910 . The most notable game that season was a loss to Missouri . Before traveling to Columbia for the game , Hawley was warned not to take Archie Alexander , Iowa ' s talented black tackle , along for the game . Fearing troubles similar to what Frank Holbrook , Iowa ' s first black football player , encountered in a game against Missouri in 1896 , Hawley agreed to leave Alexander behind . When the Iowa team arrived in Columbia , a mob of local townspeople met the team to ensure that Alexander was not with them . In view of the racial incidents as well as the unsportsmanlike treatment Hawkeye players received during the game , Hawley vowed that Iowa would never again play Missouri in football as long as he was the coach . It has been longer than that . The two neighboring state universities did not meet again until the Insight Bowl in 2010 . A 1 – 3 start was cause for concern in 1911 , but Iowa finished the year strong and had a solid 4 – 3 record in 1912 . The biggest win of the 1912 season was a 20 – 7 victory over Iowa State , the last Iowa State team to win a conference title . It was also the final loss in the coaching career of Clyde Williams , a former Iowa football star . Hawley was poised to field his best Iowa team in 1913 . The 1913 Hawkeyes had a 5 – 2 record and easily led the nation in scoring . Only a loss to Chicago kept Iowa from the Western Conference title . However , Iowa responded the following week with a 78 – 6 victory over Northwestern , the team that cost Iowa a share of the Western Conference title in 1910 . Iowa ' s 78 points is the most ever surrendered by a Northwestern team , and the 72 point loss is the second largest defeat in Northwestern school history . The Hawkeyes also defeated Cornell College , 76 – 0 , and Indiana , 60 – 0 . Iowa ' s 45 – 7 win over Iowa State was the most lopsided in series history at the time and was Iowa ' s first Homecoming win . Iowa defeated Northern Iowa , 95 – 0 , to open the 1914 season under Hawley . It is the largest margin of victory in Iowa history and easily Northern Iowa ' s biggest loss . However , many fans were critical of Iowa ' s win , stating that winning 95 – 0 did little to prepare Iowa for the rest of the season . They may have been correct ; Iowa lost consecutive conference games by 7 – 0 scores to knock the Hawkeyes from the conference race yet again . Iowa started 3 – 0 in 1915 , but Iowa lost the final four games of the season , and criticism of Hawley mounted . Specifically , eleven of the best players in the Western Conference were Iowans playing for other member schools . Undefeated Minnesota started four Iowans , Chicago and Northwestern each started three , and the star of the 1915 Wisconsin team was an Iowan as well . Five Iowans earned all - conference honors in 1915 , and only one played for Iowa . In addition , Hawley only coached and lived in Iowa City during the season , and many Hawkeye fans felt the program needed a " full - time " coach . As a result , Hawley resigned after the 1915 season . Hawley had a 24 – 18 record at Iowa . He was a quiet , reserved coach who believed in fundamentals and attention to detail . He was also a brilliant offensive coach who guided Iowa to some of the most lopsided wins in school history . Dartmouth . When Hawley resigned at Iowa , he stated that he wanted to spend more time with his investment business . He was a successful investor and businessman before he arrived at Iowa . Hawley , a Dartmouth College graduate , returned to Hanover and continued his business after leaving Iowa in 1915 . In 1923 , Dartmouth ' s football team needed a head coach , and Hawley took the job and stayed for six years . Successful in private enterprise , he volunteered his services and coached his alma mater for free . Under Hawley , Dartmouth went 22 games without a loss from 1923 to 1926 . Hawley reached the pinnacle of success in 1925 , when he led Dartmouth to an undefeated 8 – 0 season , for which Dartmouth claims the national championship . Other than two national titles claimed by Princeton in the 1930s under Fritz Crisler , the 1925 Dartmouth national title is the last claimed by an Ivy League school .