Dick Hanley (American football)

Richard Edgar Hanley (November 19, 1894 – December 16, 1970) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Haskell Institute—now known as Haskell Indian Nations University from 1922 to 1926 and at Northwestern University from 1927 to 1934, compiling a career college football coaching record of 83–35–8. During World War II, he was a major in the United States Marine Corps where he helped train the Marines. In 1946, he coached the first three games of the season for the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference. Hanley died on December 16, 1970, at Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, California.