George Peter "Jiggs" Dahlberg (April 21, 1900 – September 18, 1993) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at the University of Montana from 1937 to 1942 and again from 1944 to 1955, compiling a record of 221–223. Dahlberg was also the head football coach at Montana for one season, in 1945, tallying a mark of 1–4. He was the athletic director at Montana from 1954 to 1961.
Dahlberg graduated from the University of Montana in 1925, lettering in basketball and football.[2]
Coaching career
Dahlberg began a career as a coach at the high school level, starting out at Miles City High School in Miles City, Montana in 1925 as head coach for basketball and football. His four years at the school brought several district titles in both sports, winning basketball and football state championships in 1928. He went to Hoquiam, Washington in 1929 continuing his dual coaching roles, spending two years and winning a district title in basketball. After a year in Anaconda, Montana, with another basketball district championship achieved with a team of sophomores, he then spent four years as the head football coach at Puyallup High School. Dahlberg's coaching led to Puyallup winning a league championship in 1935. Before moving on to begin his college coaching career, he spent the 1936-1937 school year leading the basketball and football program at Chehalis High School where he was also named as the athletic director.[3][2]
Dahlberg became assistant football coach and head of the basketball program at the University of Montana in February 1937.[4]
