 A few years after his playing days ended Standbrook started coaching at the high school level with Greenway High School in Coleraine, Minnesota.After three years as head coach he joined the staff at Dartmouth under first Eddie Jeremiah and then Abner Oakes before leading the program himself starting in 1970.Dartmouth had been suffering through several bad seasons throughout the 1950s and 60s but Standbrook was able to get the Big Green to post three consecutive winning campaigns in over a decade in his second through fourth years.