Tom Dickinson

• Name: Tom Dickinson
• Class: 2025
• School: North Penn-Mansfield

Tom Dickinson came to the Northern Tier as a member of the Mansfield University football squad where he played defensive tackle. Following graduation, he served as an assistant coach for the defensive line at MU for ten years. In 1994 he accepted the position of Head Football Coach at North Penn-Mansfield High School and served in that position until his retirement in 2021.

Over those years Dickinson accumulated a record of 154-134, making him the winningest coach in the school's history. North Penn's previous thirty-four years record before Tom’s arrival was 68-208-6.

While under Dickinson’s watch the Panthers were two-time NTL Large School Division champions, 2011 Eastern Conference Champions, two-time West Branch Conference champions (1995, 1998), and two-time District IV runners up. Dickinson was inducted into the Tioga County Sports Hall Of Fame in 2012, was an 11-year PSFCA District Director, coached in the East/West game twice (one as head coach) and the Big 33 Football Classic in 2015, and has coached the North Team three times in the D4 UPM North-South All-Star game.