DeForest Stull
DeForest Stull was an American and geography professor and college football and college basketball coach. He served as the football coach at Northern State Normal—now known as Northern Michigan University—for one season, in 1912. Stull was also the head basketball coach at Northern State Normal from 1910 to 1915.
Stull was born in Richmond, Michigan, where he attended school. He earned degrees from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the University of Chicago, and Teachers College, Columbia University. He taught at Northern State Normal for 14 years before moving to Teachers College after 1922. Stull died on December 10, 1938, at Medical Center in Manhattan, from double pneumonia following an operation three days prior.