Chester R. Stackhouse

Chester Ray "Stack" Stackhouse (August 8, 1905 – June 30, 1978) was an American football and track and field coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1948, Willamette University from 1949 to 1951, and Slippery Rock State Teachers College—now known as Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania—from 1953 to 1954, compiling a career college football coaching record of 21–29–3. Stackhouse was an assistant track coach at the University of Michigan from 1935 to 1941.^[1] In 1952, he joined the football coaching staff at Stanford University as an assistant under head coach Chuck Taylor.^[2]

Chester R. Stackhouse

Biographical details
Born	(1905-08-08)August 8, 1905 Nankin, Ohio, U.S.
Died	June 30, 1978(1978-06-30) (aged 72) Turner, Oregon, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1927–1928	Central Michigan / Central State
Basketball
1927–1929	Central Michigan / Central State
Track
c. 1928	Central Michigan / Central State
Position(s)	Center (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
c. 1930	Saginaw HS (MI)
1948	Lincoln (PA)
1949–1951	Willamette
1952	Stanford (assistant)
1953–1954	Slippery Rock
Track
c. 1930	Saginaw HS (MI)
1935–1941	Michigan (assistant)
1949–1952	Willamette
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1947–1949	Lincoln (PA)
1949–1952	Willamette
Head coaching record
Overall	21–29–3 (college football)

Stackhouse was born on August 8, 1905, in Nankin, Ohio. He died on June 30, 1978, at his farm in Turner, Oregon.^[3] His daughter, Ann Rule, was an author of true crime books.^[4]

Head coaching record

College football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Lincoln Lions (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1948)
1948	Lincoln	6–4	4–2	3rd
Lincoln:		6–4	4–2
Willamette Bearcats (Northwest Conference) (1949–1951)
1949	Willamette	3–6	1–4	5th
1950	Willamette	4–4–2	1–4	T–5th
1951	Willamette	3–5	1–4	5th
Willamette:		10–15–2	3–12
Slippery Rock Rockets (Pennsylvania State Teachers College Conference) (1953–1954)
1953	Slippery Rock	4–3–1	1–2–1	7th
1954	Slippery Rock	1–7	1–3	11th
Slippery Rock:		5–10–1	2–5–1
Total:		21–29–3