Dewey Halford


Robert Duane "Dewey" Halford was an American football coach and college athletic administrator. He was the head football coach at Morningside College in Sioux [City, Iowa], serving for 19 seasons, from 1955 to 1973, and compiling a record of 72–93–3. Halford was also the athletic director at Morningside from 1969 to 1973 and the commissioner of the North [Central Conference] from 1977 to 1984.
Halford was born on March 28, 1919, in Manning, Iowa. He died on October 16, 1994, at Dickinson Country Memorial Hospital in Spirit [Lake, Iowa].