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Stan Dakosty

American football coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ107465926 ↗
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Stanley Dakosty Jr. (born January 2, 1983) is an American football coach who most recently served as the head coach at Colgate University. He also played college football at Colgate before suffering an injury and turning to coaching. Prior to being named head coach, Dakosty spent 15 of his 17-year coaching career with Colgate.

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The public source identifies “Stan Dakosty” as american football coach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stan, Dakosty and American.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-01-02. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stan, Dakosty and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stan Dakosty” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.