Linfielder Dan W. Lever: Continued success as a football coach
Written/posted by Wildcatville 6/15/2022
Linfiedler Dan W. Lever (Daniel William Lever, Class
of 2008), a great-grandson of Linfield legend Henry Lever, has had continued success as a football coach.
(Henry Lever was Linfield
athletic director 1930-1949 and "coach of everything” 1930-1945, He’s
honored on the Linfield campus in McMinnville with “Lever Street” which runs
next the Linfield athletics/p.e. building and behind Linfield football’s home, Memorial
Stadium/Maxwell Field/Catdome.)
Dan W. Lever was a running
back for the Wildcats, lettering in 2006, 2007 and 2008 With this story is a
Wildcatville photo of Dan W. Lever wearing uniform, #27, on the sidelines of a 2007
Linfield home football game.
He was a 3-year letter
winner at Linfield College. Dan was named “Physical Education major of the
year” in 2008 by the Linfield faculty. Lever is extremely proud to be a 4th
generation teacher and coach.
The newly appointed head coach of Silverton (Oregon) High School, Dan W. Lever previously was Tualatin (Oregon) high School head football coach, and He coached Tualatin to the state championship game in 2021.
Dan W. Lever is a fourth generation football coach.
Great-grandfather Henry
Lever was the head football coach at Oregon’s Myrtle Point High School (1925-29)
before moving to Linfield. Henry’s background included being head football
coach at Valley City State in North Dakota, Texas Christian University, and
Carrol in Wisconsin.
Dan W. Lever’s grandfather, Dan, was the head coach at Madras and Newberg in Oregon.
Dan, the father of Dan W. Lever was the head coach at Monroe and
an assistant at Canby. Both are in Oregon.
As a graduating student, Dan
W. Lever was named “Physical Education major of the year” in 2008 by the
Linfield faculty.
Dan W. Lever first head football coaching job was at Gervais (Oregon). He assisted in football programs at Southeastern Oklahoma State, Puget Sound in Tacoma and California’s Santa Barbara Community College before taking over at Tualatin.
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