C. W. Dibble, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American football player and coach
Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1876
Place of Birth: Perry, New York, United States
Date of Death: 14-Sep-1948
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About C. W. Dibble
- Condit Woodhull Dibble (October 23, 1876 – September 14, 1948) was an American football player and coach.
- He starred in football as a halfback at Lawrenceville School, a prep school in New Jersey, and briefly for Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
- He was also the head coach of the 1897 Buffalo football team. When he entered Lawrenceville he became one of the school's all-time football heroes because of his speed and prowess as a halfback that won him the name of "Flash" Dibble.
- His success was celebrated in an Owen Johnson novel entitled The Varmint of life at Lawrenceville.In the fall of 1896, Dibble entered Williams College.
- In an October 3, 1896 game against Harvard, Dibble was apparently kicked in the head while playing.
- Two weeks later, he was unconscious and diagnosed with a brain abscess.
- He was thought to be incurably insane.
- Dibble recovered but suffered from strange bouts of memory loss including the inability to remember anyone, outside of immediate family, from his home town.
- His medical situation made national news.Dibble was treated by a Buffalo, New York doctor and "cured" in June 1897.
- In 1897, he enrolled at the University of Buffalo.
- Although still wanting to continue to play football, he wisely agreed to coach instead.
- The Buffalo team finished the season undefeated at 7–0.
- He left the school the following year. Due to his head injury, Dibble never returned to Williams College and never graduated from college.
- He worked in banking for most of his life in North Adams, Massachusetts.
- He died on September 14, 1948.
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