Dwight Vincent "Dike" Beede (January 23, 1903 – December 10, 1972) was an American college football player and coach.
As a standout player with Walter Steffen's Carnegie squad in the 1920s, Beede made football history when he introduced the famous "spinner play."
Upon graduation, Beede turned down an offer to teach mathematics Carnegie Tech and, in 1926 accepted the position of head football coach at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
[4] Beede was the 17th head football coach at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, serving for three seasons, from 1934 to 1936, and compiling a record of 14–10–3.
Jack McFee later employed the penalty flag at the Ohio State-Iowa game, during which league commissioner Major John Griffith was present.
[1] Beede's first wife, Irma, was often jokingly referred to as the "Betsy Ross of Football," because she sewed the first penalty flag.
On December 10, 1972, just a month after having retired from Youngstown State University, Beede died in a drowning accident at Little Beaver Creek near his farm in Elkton, Ohio, located in Columbiana County.