Les Dye

American football player (1916–2000)

Les Dye
Career information
No. 38
Date of birth	(1916-07-15)July 15, 1916
Place of birth	Forestville, New York, U.S.
Date of death	August 11, 2000(2000-08-11) (aged 84)
Place of death	Salem, Virginia, U.S.
Position(s)	End
US college	Syracuse
High school	Wellsville
Career history
As player
1944–1945	Washington Redskins

Career stats
Playing stats at NFL.com Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Lester Henry Dye (July 15, 1916 – August 11, 2000) was an American football end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Syracuse University.^[1]

Career

Dye served as the athletic director at Syracuse University from 1973 until 1978. In 1976, he hired Jim Boeheim as the seventh head basketball coach for the Syracuse Orange men's basketball team.^[2]

References

^ "Les Dye Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
^ Harris, Andrew (March 10, 2023). "Famed Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim has plenty of Wellsville ties". Wellsville Sun. Retrieved March 10, 2023.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Pro Football Reference

Clarkson Golden Knights head football coaches

No coach (1899)
Unknown (1905)
No team (1906–1915)
Wallace Swarthout (1916)
John M. Reed (1920–1924)
C. B. Johnston (1925–1928)
De Alton Smith (1929–1930)
Pete Dwyer (1931–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Les Dye (1946–1948)
A. Barr Snively (1949–1951)

v t e Syracuse Orange athletic directors
George B. Thurston # (1932–1934) Leslie A. Bryan (1934–1937) Lew Andreas (1937–1964) Jim Decker (1964–1972) Ron Oyer # (1972–1973) Les Dye (1973–1978) Jake Crouthamel (1978–2005) Daryl Gross (2005–2015) Peter Sala # (2015) Mark Coyle (2015–2016) Dan French # (2016) John Wildhack (2016– ) # denotes interim athletic director