Dick Nolan was a member of the Kansas State Teachers College football team in 1933 and 1934 and later served as head football coach on the high school, junior college and four-year levels.  Nolan was a two-time Kansas All-Star and All-Central Conference lineman who was called “one of the finest linemen in the state of Kansas during the 1930’s” by Gene Kemper, Sports Editor of the Topeka Daily Capital.  After coaching the K.S.T.C. freshman in 1935, Nolan spent four years as the head football coach at Arkansas City Junior College.  He never lost a home game in his four seasons there and to the Kansas Junior College State Championship in 1939.  He became Director of Athletics and Head Football Coach at Southwestern College in 1940 and 1941.  He later served as football coach and tennis coach at Greeley (Colorado) High School and led them to a state championship in football in 1951 and to a state title in tennis in 1952.