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Dale Strahm
Dale Strahm
Director of College Scouting

Dale Strahm joined the Texans as the director of college scouting in June 2006. A veteran of 29 collegiate football seasons in the coaching ranks, Strahm moved into NFL scouting with the Denver Broncos in 1998 after completing his coaching career.

Strahm was head coach at Western Carolina University from 1989-90 and has experience as a defensive coordinator at Temple University (1994-97), Duke University (1990-93), the University of Georgia (1981-88), Navy (1977-80) and Bowling Green (1971-76). He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green in 1968. He has also spent six years coaching at the high school level. During Strahm’s tenure at Georgia, the Bulldogs won SEC Championships in 1981 and 1982 and participated in eight consecutive bowl games. In all, he coached in 11 major bowl games.

Strahm is a 1966 graduate of Ohio Northern University, where he played four years of football and ran four years of track, earning six varsity letters in the process. Strahm recently was recognized by ONU for his outstanding career in football after he was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Additionally, he earned his master’s degree from Bowling Green in 1970.

In his career, Strahm has worked with four men who have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. His brother, Dick, whom he coached with at Western Reserve High School in Warren, Ohio, was inducted for his work at Findlay College. Strahm worked with Don Nehlen at Bowling Green, George Welsh while at the Naval Academy and Vince Dooley at Georgia.

A native of Toledo, Ohio, Strahm is a graduate of E.D. Libbey High School, where he was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 1997. He and his wife, Diane, reside in Charlotte, N.C. The couple has three sons, Brian, Bradley and Brett.

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