Red Dawson
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"Lowell Potter "Red" Dawson" was an American football coach for the University of Pittsburgh Panthers and the Tulane Green Wave at the collegiate level and the All-America Football Conference/AAFC's Buffalo Bills (AAFC)/Buffalo Bills at the professional level. He learned the craft of football coaching at the University of Minnesota under Bernie Bierman, his former coach at Tulane. At University of Pittsburgh Panthers/Pitt he coached future Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Schmidt and won Pittsburgh's "Dapper Dan" sports award in 1952. Dawson's greatest successes as a coach, however, were with Tulane and Buffalo. His 1939 Tulane squad went through the season undefeated before a disappointing loss to Texas A&M Aggies football/Texas A&M in the Sugar Bowl. In 1948 his Buffalo Bills team captured the AAFC Eastern Division title in a playoff against the Baltimore Colts (1947-50)/Baltimore Colts, though they ultimately lost the AAFC Championship Game to the Cleveland Browns. Dawson's final won-loss record was 36–19–4 at Tulane, 9–11–1 at Pitt, and 19–25–4 at Buffalo.

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For the last 35 years, it was mostly bad memories.

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