[3] He then worked as an instructor at the Milton Academy until September 1905, when he was hired to coach football and baseball and teach mathematics at Everett High School.

Everett defeated Waltham 6–0 in front of 12,000 spectators, an attendance record for a Massachusetts high school football game.

[5][6] Later that year, Dame accepted a position as physical instructor at Lynn English High School.

[12][13] In 1921, the R Club, a Western Reserve alumni group, demanded that Dame be replaced as head football coach by his assistant and predecessor Frank A. Yocum.

The negativity towards Dame was so strong that police officers were stationed at the entrance of fields to turn away alumni.