University of Central Oklahoma Athletics

Dale Hamilton spent 44 years at Central Oklahoma, enjoying success as both athlete, coach and athletic director. Hamilton lettered four straight years in football, basketball and track, earning All-Conference honors in football and winning conference track titles in the 220 and 440 yard dashes.

A 1933 graduate of UCO, Hamilton coached football, basketball, track and golf during his lengthy career with the Bronchos.  Hamilton never had a losing season in 12 years atop the football program, winning or sharing seven Oklahoma Collegiate Conference titles wile piling up a 73-25-3 record, and UCO went 57-30 in the four years Hamilton guided the basketball team.

Hamilton also coached five conference championship golf teams, with two of those squads finishing as NAIA national runners-up, and he had three conference title-winning track teams.

Hamilton also served as athletic director from 1941-76.  A member of the NAIA and Oklahoma coaching Association hall of fame, Hamilton was named a Distinguished Former Student in 1977 and Bronchos Award winner in 1990.