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Whatever became of the very first head football coach at what is now known as Boise State University - back when Boise State Junior College first fielded a football team in 1933?
His first name is listed as Donald on some websites and Morris on other websites. "Dusty" Kline in addition to coaching B.J.C. for only one season in 1933 was also known to have been the head football coach at Rupert High School in 1929. It is also known that he was the Tennis coach as well as the football coach at B.J.C.
With genealogy being a major hobby of mine I tried to find a record of him on both the 1930 and the 1940 census records. There was NOBODY named Donald or Dusty Kline recorded as a resident of the State of Idaho in 1930 or 1940 other than a Donald Lee Kline who was born in 1933 in Canyon County, Idaho (who obviously could not have been a football coach in 1929 and 1933). There was a Morris W. Kline who was born about 1902 in New Jersey who had a wife named Camille. They had two sons named Lawrence M. Kline, age four, born in Oregon, and Michael S. Kline, age one, born in Idaho. But whether this was the man who 11 years earlier was the head football coach at Rupert H.S. and 7 years earlier was the head football and tennis coach at Boise Junior College in 1933 I do not know.
During his one year as the head football coach at Boise Junior College "Dusty" Kline's record was 1-2-1 with the first game being a 6-0 loss to St. Joseph's College - which I ASSUME was the forerunner of what is now St. Joseph's Catholic Elementary school location at 825 W. Fort Street in Boise.
10/12/1933 Dusty Kline St. Joseph's College Boise, ID 00 - 06 L
11/9/1933 Dusty Kline College of Idaho, frosh Caldwell, ID 25 - 06 W
11/18/1933 Dusty Kline So. Idaho College of Ed. Boise, ID 06 - 07 L
11/30/1933 Dusty Kline St. Joseph's College Boise, ID 00 - 00 T
If anyone has any FACTUAL information on who "Dusty" Kline was and where he came from and what became of him I'd love to hear from you.
His first name is listed as Donald on some websites and Morris on other websites. "Dusty" Kline in addition to coaching B.J.C. for only one season in 1933 was also known to have been the head football coach at Rupert High School in 1929. It is also known that he was the Tennis coach as well as the football coach at B.J.C.
With genealogy being a major hobby of mine I tried to find a record of him on both the 1930 and the 1940 census records. There was NOBODY named Donald or Dusty Kline recorded as a resident of the State of Idaho in 1930 or 1940 other than a Donald Lee Kline who was born in 1933 in Canyon County, Idaho (who obviously could not have been a football coach in 1929 and 1933). There was a Morris W. Kline who was born about 1902 in New Jersey who had a wife named Camille. They had two sons named Lawrence M. Kline, age four, born in Oregon, and Michael S. Kline, age one, born in Idaho. But whether this was the man who 11 years earlier was the head football coach at Rupert H.S. and 7 years earlier was the head football and tennis coach at Boise Junior College in 1933 I do not know.
During his one year as the head football coach at Boise Junior College "Dusty" Kline's record was 1-2-1 with the first game being a 6-0 loss to St. Joseph's College - which I ASSUME was the forerunner of what is now St. Joseph's Catholic Elementary school location at 825 W. Fort Street in Boise.
10/12/1933 Dusty Kline St. Joseph's College Boise, ID 00 - 06 L
11/9/1933 Dusty Kline College of Idaho, frosh Caldwell, ID 25 - 06 W
11/18/1933 Dusty Kline So. Idaho College of Ed. Boise, ID 06 - 07 L
11/30/1933 Dusty Kline St. Joseph's College Boise, ID 00 - 00 T
If anyone has any FACTUAL information on who "Dusty" Kline was and where he came from and what became of him I'd love to hear from you.