Who was the first coach of the BC Lions CFL Football Team?
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Annis Stukus.  He passed away on Saturday at age 91.
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It was in 1998.  He also coached for Philadelphia, Los Angeles, had two different stints with Vancouver, and played for Toronto in 1968-1970, Vancouver from 1970-1972, and was captain of the Atlanta Flames from 1972-1977, when he retired.
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The Princeton Tigers and Columbia Lions, on May 17, 1930.  The first major league games were a doubleheader between the Dodgers and the Reds on August 26, 1930.
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It was Pudge Heffelfinger .  http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910
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No Coach-                               1887-1891\nGeorge W. Hoskins                 1892-1895\nDr. Samuel B Newton              1896-1898\nSam B Boyle                            1899\nWilliam N. "Pop" Golden          1900-1902\nDaniel A Reed                          1903\nThomas F. Fennell                   1904-1908\nWilliam M. "Bill" Hollenback      1909, 1911-1914\nJack Hollenback                       1910\nRichard C. "Dick" Harlow         1915-1917\nHugo F. Bezdek                        1918-1929\nRobert A. "Bob" Higgins            1930-1948\nF. Joseph "Joe" Bedenk            1949\nCharles A. "Rip" Engle               1950-1965\nJoe Paterno                               1966- Present
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bengals 49ers - 1982\n\nand u mean the OLD home, its now Ford Field!-lol
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There have been 15 total coaches in the program's history, but only five in the previous fifty years: Frank McGuire (1952-1961) Dean Smith (1962-1997) Bill Guthridge (1998-2000) Matt Doherty (2000-2002) Roy Williams (2003 - Present) \n\nA few others: Nat Cartmell (1911-1915) Charles Doak (1915-1920) Howell Peacock (1917-1920)  Fred Boye (1920-1922) no coach for a few years (still competitive team though!) James Ashmore (1927-1932) George "Bo" Sheppard (1932-1935) Walter Skidmore (1936-1939) Bill Lange (1940-1944) Ben Carnevale (1945-1946 ) Tom Scott (1946-1952)
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Tulane - college team\n\nCal Poly - college team\n\nBoise State - college coach\n\nDenver Broncos - pro coach
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Pretty sure it was Chuck Long, who the Lions wasted a first pick on from Iowa.  Yeah, he doesn't play anymore, but it was him.
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I think Damon Allen is already first all time. He has passed for 69,273 yards over his career. He is the leading passer in the CFL, and has more than the all time NFL leader (Dan Marino - 61,361 yards)
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a lions game.... never long enough for them to win!
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Chip Lohmiller, Redskins (1988-1994), went to college at the University of Minnesota (1984-1987) and  currently is an EMT/volunteer fireman in Crosslake, Minnesota. According to a recent article in the Brainard Dispatch newspaper, he will be the head football coach for class 3A Pequot Lakes High School this season after spending the past three years as offensive coordinator. He also plays golf occasionally on the Celebrity Players Tour and has a 'classic' golf tournament scheduled at the Breezy Point Resort Golf Course in Breezy Point, MN for 8/15/04
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"Andy Reid was part of the vaunted coaching staff Mike Holmgren assembled in Green Bay during the 1990s.\n\nWhen the Packers lost the 1998 NFC Wild Card Game in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Eagles seized the opportunity. Reid was named head coach of the "Birds" in January 1999. On his shoulders was the task of rebuilding a team that had suffered an NFL-worst 3-13 record in 1998.\n\nThrough wise draft choices that surprised fans and experts alike, such as Syracuse QB Donovan McNabb, Reid rebuilt the Eagles into a consistent winner. Since 2000, the Eagles have been the NFL's winningest team. And on January 23, 2005, after three straight shortcomings, Reid led the Eagles to the NFC Championship over Atlanta. It would be the Eagles' first Super Bowl appearance in 24 years."
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it was the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998. this first team to do it since the penguins in 91 and 92. under the same coach scotty bowman
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1869\nRutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football game, the first ever, November 6. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to develop from rugby. \n1876\nAt the Massasoit convention, the first rules for American football were written. Walter Camp, who would become known as the father of American football, first became involved with the game. \n\n   \nIn an era in which football was a major attraction of local athletic clubs, an intense competition between two Pittsburgh-area clubs, the Allegheny Athletic Association (AAA) and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club (PAC), led to the making of the first professional football player. Former Yale All-America guard William (Pudge) Heffelfinger was paid $500 by the AAA to play in a game against the PAC, becoming the first person to be paid to play football, November 12. The AAA won the game 4-0 when Heffelfinger picked up a PAC fumble and ran 35 yards for a touchdown. \n\n1893\nThe Pittsburgh Athletic Club signed one of its players, probably halfback Grant Dibert, to the first known pro football contract, which covered all of the PAC's games for the year. \n\n1895\nJohn Brallier became the first football player to openly turn pro, accepting $10 and expenses to play for the Latrobe YMCA against the Jeannette Athletic Club. \n\n1896 \nThe Allegheny Athletic Association team fielded the first completely professional team for its abbreviated two-game season. \n\n1897\nThe Latrobe Athletic Association football team went entirely professional, becoming the first team to play a full season with only professionals. \n\n1898 \nA touchdown was changed from four points to five. \n\n1899\nChris O'Brien formed a neighborhood team, which played under the name the Morgan Athletic Club, on the south side of Chicago. The team later became known as the Normals, then the Racine (for a street in Chicago) Cardinals, the Chicago Cardinals, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Phoenix Cardinals, and, in 1994, the Arizona Cardinals. The team remains the oldest continuing operation in pro football. \n\n1900\nWilliam C. Temple took over the team payments for the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, becoming the first known individual club owner. \n\n1902 \nBaseball's Philadelphia Athletics, managed by Connie Mack, and the Philadelphia Phillies formed professional football teams, joining the Pittsburgh Stars in the first attempt at a pro football league, named the National Football League. The Athletics won the first night football game ever played, 39-0 over Kanaweola AC at Elmira, New York, November 21. All three teams claimed the pro championship for the year, but the league president, Dave Berry, named the Stars the champions. Pitcher Rube Waddell was with the Athletics, and pitcher Christy Mathewson a fullback for Pittsburgh. The first World Series of pro football, actually a five-team tournament, was played among a team made up of players from both the Athletics and the Phillies, but simply named New York; the New York Knickerbockers; the Syracuse AC; the Warlow AC; and the Orange (New Jersey) AC at New York's original Madison Square Garden. New York and Syracuse played the first indoor football game before 3,000, December 28. Syracuse, with Glen (Pop) Warner at guard, won 6-0 and went on to win the tournament. \n\n1903\nThe Franklin (Pa.) Athletic Club won the second and last World Series of pro football over the Oreos AC of Asbury Park, New Jersey; the Watertown Red and Blacks; and the Orange AC. Pro football was popularized in Ohio when the Massillon Tigers, a strong amateur team, hired four Pittsburgh pros to play in the season-ending game against Akron. At the same time, pro football declined in the Pittsburgh area, and the emphasis on the pro game moved west from Pennsylvania to Ohio. \n\n1904\nA field goal was changed from five points to four. Ohio had a
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Rod Marinelli was the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach for tampa bay. which explains why the lions passed on linehart
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Al Davis coached the Raiders from 1963 to 1966 before becoming their owner.  Not sure if other owners have been players and/or coaches.