Daniel Paul Rader (August 24, 1879 – July 19, 1938) was an American evangelist and college football player and coach.
[2] Rader attended Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where in 1901 he helped found the Beta Omicron Sigma Kappa social fraternity, or the Brotherhood of Scholarly Knights.
[8] However, by the summer of 1904, the school's administrators could not locate Rader, who was working as a pastor at a church in Boston, and began negotiations with James N. Ashmore, who had coached the 1903 Washington Agricultural football team, to return in 1904.
[11] In 1925, Rader, who had been holding revival camp meetings in Tower Lakes, Illinois, bought 367 acres there, with plans for summer cottages, a radio station and a tabernacle that could accommodate 5,000 hearers.
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