[2] In football, he compiled a record of 36–53–7, and led his team to one conference championship during the 1938 season.

His 1928–29 Bobcats team finished the season with a 36–2 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.

[4][5][6] That squad is considered to be one of the greatest college teams in the first half of the 20th century.

[7] Dyche was born in Topeka, Kansas and grew up in southern Colorado.

Dyche also taught in the physical education department at Montana State and was a part-time coach for the baseball team.