Dennis Goldman - Football Coach - Princeton University Athletics

Dennis Goldman

Title:
Wide Receivers Coach
Email:
dennisg@princeton.edu
Phone:
258-0129

QUICK FACTS ON DENNIS GOLDMAN

• has coached 12 All-Ivy League wide receivers during his tenure at Princeton

• coached Jesper Horsted to a record-breaking 2017 season

• coached three All-Ivy WRs on top-ranked Ivy unit during 2016 Ivy championship season

• helped the 2013 Ivy champions break the Ivy League marks for total, scoring offense

• coached Trey Peacock '11, Roman Wilson '14, Jesper Horsted '19 to first-team All-Ivy honors

• Roman Wilson made two game-winning catches over Harvard during 2012, 2013 seasons

• among coaching stops, spent time at Syracuse and coached Marvin Harrison, David Tyree

• coach on Princeton during its "Game of the Century" victory over Yale in 1981

PRINCETON RECRUITING AREAS — Canada/International; Arkansas; Connecticut; Hawaii; Massachusetts; Maine; New Hampshire; New York (not including Nassau, New York City, and Suffolk)

Email Coach Goldman at dennisg@princeton.edu

Dennis Goldman once coached a wideout bound to make one of the most memorable catches in football history, and he has coached in arguably three of Princeton's biggest victories of the last 40 years.

21481 If you thought that would be enough for Dennis Goldman, guess again. In the last five seasons at Princeton, he coached a receiver who made two of the most memorable catches in Tiger history, and he sent three receivers to the All-Ivy League teams during both the 2013 and 2016 championship seasons.

Last season, he helped Princeton produce the only duo of double-digit touchdown receivers in Ivy League history. Jesper Horsted broke the Princeton single-season receptions record and finished third on the Ivy League list with 92 catches, and he also broke the single-season Princeton touchdowns record (14). Meanwhile, Stephen Carlson would have matched the Princeton single-season touchdown receptions record with 11, although Horsted broke the mark one week earlier.

Goldman also coached Seth DeValve '16, the highest-drafted Princeton football player of the modern NFL Draft era; DeValve caught two touchdown passes in his rookie season and has at least one catch in every game of the 2017 season.

Goldman has been a member of Bob Surace's staff during all seven seasons, including both the 2013 and 2016 Ivy championship seasons. The 2016 offense led the Ivy League in both total and scoring offense, with Isaiah Barnes, Jesper Horsted, and Trevor Osborne each earnin All-Ivy League distinction following the season.

En route to the 2013 Ivy League championship, Princeton broke the Ivy League records for both scoring offense (43.7 points per game) and total offense (511.6 yards per game). After scoring 50 points only four times in a span of 469 games entering the 2013 schedule, the Tigers did so five times during their eight wins, including victories over historic rivals Harvard and Yale. That clinched a second straight bonfire at Princeton, a tradition saved for a "Big Three" title.

Roman Wilson, whose game-winning catches during both the 2012 and 2013 victories over Harvard will be remembered for generations to come, earned All-America honors and first-team All-Ivy honors, and he finished his career ranked second in Princeton history in touchdown catches and in the Top 10 in both receptions and receiving yards.

Goldman, whose coaching career has spanned nearly four decades, came to Princeton from the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, where he had coached wide receivers since 2007. Under Goldman's tutelage in 2008, receiver Prechae Rodriguez emerged as one of the league's most explosive offensive threats and was named the East Division's Most Outstanding Rookie.

The Brooklyn native brings three decades of coaching experience at the collegiate level, including 10 seasons at Syracuse University. Prior to his time in the CFL, Goldman had most recently spent the 2005 season as the wide receivers coach at Temple University.

Goldman served as wide receivers coach at Syracuse for five seasons (2000-04). In total, the Brooklyn, N.Y., native worked as an assistant for the Orange for 10 years, first directing wide receivers from 1991-94 before returning to instruct tight ends and special teams in 1999. Goldman tutored a number of standout wide receivers at Syracuse. He coached Jamel Riddle and David Tyree, each a second-team All-Big East selection in 2002, and Johnnie Morant, who was drafted in 2004 by the Oakland Raiders; Tyree would famously go on to make the “helmet catch” late in Super Bowl XLII to help New York to a 17-14 win over New England.

During his first tenure as Syracuse’s wide receivers coach, Goldman guided the careers of future NFL standouts Marvin Harrison and Qadry Ismail, both of whom surpassed 1,000 collegiate receiving yards.

Goldman began his coaching career in 1971 at Bulkely (Conn.) High School. He then coached at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut (1973) before working at Westchester (N.Y.) Community College in 1974. He landed his first four-year college coaching job at Southern Connecticut State, serving under George DeLeone from 1975-1979.

After a one-year stint at Orville Platt High School (1980), Goldman headed to Princeton (1981) to work under head coach Frank Navarro as a defensive assistant coach. That season included the famous 35-31 victory over Yale, which was named the Game of the Century by the Princeton Athletic News in 1999.

“The defensive coordinator at the time was Steve Schnall,” Goldman remembered, “and he bought us all silver mugs that say ‘We Beat Yale.’ I still have that on my shelves. That was one of the two or three biggest wins of my career.”

Following one year with the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1982, Goldman directed Northeastern's secondary and special teams from 1983-85. He instructed wide receivers and tight ends at Holy Cross from 1986-1990.

Following his first stint at Syracuse, Goldman moved to Maryland to mentor Terrapin wide receivers for the 1995 and 1996 seasons. He helped guide Jermaine Lewis, who went on to an NFL career with the Baltimore Ravens, the Houston Texans and the Jacksonville Jaguars. He then served as defensive backs coach at Towson State in 1997 and offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the Citadel in 1998.

Goldman is a graduate of Abraham Lincoln HS in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education at Southern Connecticut State, where he played offensive line, in 1971, and received his master's degree in physical education from the University of Bridgeport in 1974. Goldman and his wife, Christine, have two children, Jake and Leah.