Top Three Coaches of Buffalo’s First Era

Billy Botts 1897 Photo, Bott was also a member of the 96 teamWith kickoff just 76 days away and Buffalo Coach Maurice Linguist about to complete his first calendar year at Buffalo, I thought it would be neat to take a look back at some other UB coaches.

Let’s start with the “First Era” of UB football which covered from 1894 to 1903. In this era there were three “official coaches” and some player coaches for the Buffalo football team.

#1 Bemus Pierce

Bemus Pierce came to Buffalo a year after C.W. Dibble left and the school was looking for a replacement.

Pierce played for the great Carlisle Indian School teams from 1894-1898 and would later play professional football for the championship teams…