Dana Evans

Who is Dana Evans?

Dana M. Evans was an American athlete, coach and athletics administrator. He played football and baseball at Boston University. For ten years, he directed the Denver Athletic Club's activities. In 1904, he accepted a position as wrestling, basketball and gymnastics coach at Cornell University. He was the athletic director and head basketball coach at Beloit College from 1910 to 1914. He was the head basketball coach at Indiana University and Northwestern University. He compiled a career record of 46–32 in six seasons as a head basketball coach. He was also the head track coach at Indiana. He resigned from his position at Indiana in August 1919 to accept a position as the head of the department of physical education at Northwestern. He suffered a nervous breakdown in September 1924 and died of a heart attack in November 1924.