University of San Francisco Athletics

William R. Dando was born on April 30, 1932 in Ashland, PA. Dando began his college playing career at the University of San Francisco. He was a member of the 1951 Dons who were uninvited to a bowl game that year because they had two African American players on the team: Ollie Matson and Burl Toler. After the program folded, he transferred to Detroit and played from 1956 to 1958. 

He began coaching football as an Assistant Coach and later served as the Head Coach at John Carroll University in 1964 and at the University at Buffalo from 1977 to 1989 with a record of 63–68–1. The University at Buffalo Alumni Association inducted Coach Dando into the University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. Bill Dando, UB's 19th Head football Coach, was credited with creating the base for the university's rise to Division I-A. When hired as Head Coach in 1977, Dando had to rebuild the program, from the Division III level, since the University had dissolved the Division I level in 1970. Among the highlights of Dando's 13 seasons with the Bulls were the 1983 team, which posted a record of 8–2 and whose offense recorded numbers still stand as records, and the 1986 team, which posted a record of 9–2, finishing fifth in the East and 20th in the NCAA Division III poll (Wikipedia).