Dan A. Killian


Dan Arnold Killian was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1904 to 1906, compiling a record of 8–6–2. Killian was also the head coach of the LSU baseball team from 1905 to 1906, as well as head coach of the LSU Tigers track and field team from 1905 to 1906. He also served as athletic director.
Killian was a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he lettered as a shortstop in baseball in 1902. He also reportedly played quarterback on the football team, but if he did, he apparently did not qualify for a letter.
In 1906 he left coaching "to do sporting work for a newspaper" in Chicago.
He died in Lansing, Michigan in 1953.