About Dick Foster
Lived 1934 – 2020 (aged 86). Dick Foster was an American american football coach.
Richard Henry Foster (January 24, 1934 – October 23, 2020) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kansas from 1969 to 1970 and Coffeyville Community College from 1975 to 1988, compiling a career junior college football coaching record of 146–25–2. He led his 1970 Fort Scott Greyhounds football team and 1983 Coffeyville Red Ravens football team to NJCAA National Football Championships.
Foster graduated from William Jewell College in 1954, and later received a master's degree from the University of Missouri. He began his coaching career at Grain Valley High School in Grain Valley, Missouri, where he was an assistant football coach for two seasons. Foster was the head football coach at Platte County High School in Platte City, Missouri from 1957 to 1968, tallying a mark of 84–22–9 in 12 seasons. In between his stints at Fort Scott and Coffeyville, he spent four years at the University of Kansas as freshman coach and director of recruiting under head football coach Don Fambrough. Foster left Coffeyville in 1989 to become the athletic department recruiting coordinator at the University of Oklahoma, reporting to athletic director Donnie Duncan. Foster's on, Skip Foster, succeeded him as head coach of the Red Ravens.
Foster died on October 23, 2020.
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American football coach
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Dick Foster was born on 24 January 1934.
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Dick Foster died on 23 October 2020.
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