Alumni News - Dave Eavenson Passes Away at 71

Former West Chester football player Dave Eavenson has passed away. He was 71. Eavenson was a two-time first team All-PSAC East offensive tackle and played for the the Golden Ram teams that went to the Tangerine Bowl in both 1966 and 1967. After graduating from West Chester in 1969, he went on to be head football coach at Dickinson College for more than 20 years and athletic director for Carlisle High School for an equally long tenure. He also served in various capacities for Shippensburg Athletics.

Eavenson is a member of the South Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Killinger Hall of Fame in 2013.

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