Twelfth Generation16920. Dwight Vincent "Dike" BEEDE was born on 23 January 1903 in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio.3733 He died on 10 December 1972 at the age of 69 in Elkton, Columbiana, Ohio.3733 He drowned on his farm in the raging waters of Little Beaver Creek. He served as the first head football coach of Youngstown State University (then Youngstown College). He served there from 1937 to 1972. In the course of his entire professional coaching career, Beede counted 175 career wins, 146 losses and 20 ties. In 1941, he invented and introduced the penalty flag, now a common fixture of American football. Beede was born in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, a steel-manufacturing center located near the Pennsylvania border. He attended the city's South High School, where he was class president and played football. In his senior year, Beede received a football scholarship to Newberry College, in South Carolina. He later transferred to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he studied structural engineering and played football. As a stand-out player with Judge Wally Steffan's Carnegie squad in the 1920s, Beede made football history when he introduced the famous "spinner play." He served as captain of the Carnegie Tech football team in 1925 and also played basketball. Beede was an important influence on football not only regionally, but nationally. His most celebrated innovation was the penalty flag, which he created and introduced on October 17, 1941. The flag was first used in a game against Oklahoma City University at Youngstown's Rayen Stadium. Prior to the introduction of the penalty flag, officials used horns and whistles to signal a penalty. This made it difficult for the players, since they would hear the whistle and sometimes stop, even though the infraction was caused by the other team. This would deprive the non-guilty team of the yardage they might rightfully have gained. Also, the fans and media sometimes could not recognize an infraction on the field because they had failed to hear the signal. Dwight Vincent "Dike" BEEDE and Irma Adele JOHNSON were married.3733 Irma Adele JOHNSON119, daughter of Samuel JOHNSON and Carrabell HENRY, was born on 6 January 1903 in Ohio. She died on 4 August 1969 at the age of 66 in Lisbon, Columbiana, Ohio.3733 She died in the summer from auto injuries accidently received at home. Dwight Vincent "Dike" BEEDE-16912 and Irma Adele JOHNSON-16913 had the following children:
Dwight Vincent "Dike" BEEDE and Mary B. BARTRAM were married on 8 February 1972 in Mahoning County, Ohio.3735 |