List of Eastern Michigan Eagles head football coaches
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The Eastern Michigan Eagles football
program is a college football
team that represents Eastern Michigan University
in the Mid-American Conference
, a part of the NCAA Division I. The team has had 40 head coaches, including four interim head coaches who each served less than one full season (Bob LaPointe
, Jan Quarless
, Tony Lombardi
, and Al Lavan), since its first recorded football game in 1891. The current coach is Ron English
who first took the position for the 2009 season.
Many of EMU's head coaches have had brief tenures with the program; 18 head coaches served for one season or less. Among the more notable head coaches at EMU have been Clayton Teetzel
(1900–1902), Henry Schulte
(1906–1908), Elton Rynearson
(1917, 1919–1920, 1925–1948), Fred Trosko
(1952–1964), Dan Boisture
(1967–1973), Mike Stock
(1978–1982), and Jim Harkema
(1983–1992). Rynearson was the longest-serving and winningest coach, with a record of 114-58-15 over 26 seasons, while Vern Bennett (1894) posted the highest winning percentage, 71.4%. Tony Lombardi was the shortest-tenured coach, both in time and number of games, leading the team only for five days, and only for the final game of the 1999 season.
The most recent head coach to leave Eastern Michigan with a winning record was Dan Boisture, who left after the 1973 season; only Boisture and Elton Rynearson coached more than two seasons and retired with winning records.
was raised in Massachusetts, where American football
went through much of its early development, and he is credited with introducing "scientific football" to Michigan State Normal School. Modern records credit Swift as the school's first football coach, holding that position for the 1891 season.
Following Swift, the football team was coached by a series of men who held the position for a single year each, none of whom were professional coaches in today's sense. About Deane W. Kelley
(1892), Verne S. Bennett
(1894), Enoch Thorne
(1898), Dwight Watson
(1899), Hunter Forest
(1903), Daniel Lawrence
(1904–1905), Clare Hunter
(1909), Curry Hicks
(1910), Dwight Wilson
(1911), Leroy Brown (1912–1913; basketball also), and Thomas Ransom
(1914; basketball also) little is known beyond the years they held the position, the team's schedule, and occasional tidbits from The Aurora, the school yearbook. Other early coaches went on to great success in other fields. Ernest P. Goodrich
(1893) was a pioneer in urban planning
and engineering, the first president of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
, and the president of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers. A. Bird Glaspie
held various political posts in Michigan, and served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1917 until 1922 and the Michigan Senate
from 1923 through 1924.
Most notable of these early coaches was Fred Green
, who, in 1896, coached the team to the championship of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
. Green served 10 years as mayor of Ionia, Michigan
, from 1913 until 1922. In 1926, Green was elected Governor of Michigan
, and he was re-elected to a second two-year term in 1928.
was the first career coach at Michigan State Normal. Teetzel played end on the 1897
and 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team
s before switching to halfback in 1899
. Teetzel graduated from the University of Michigan Law School with an LL.B.
degree in 1900, following which he became the head coach at Michigan State Normal. After three seasons at MSNC, during which he compiled a 6-14-1 record, Teetzel left the school to coach football at Benton Harbor High School
in 1903, 1904, and 1905. Teetzel went on to Brigham Young University
(1905–1908) and Utah State Agricultural College
(1908–1916), where he headed the athletic departments and coached a variety or sports, including basketball and track.
and center
at Michigan for Fielding H. Yost's famous "Point-a-Minute" teams of 1903
, 1904
, and 1905
. In 1906, in response to charges of professionalism at major college football programs, the faculty at Michigan ruled Schulte and two other football players academically ineligible. As a result, Schulte missed the 1906 season.
While ineligible at Michigan, Schulte began a long career in coaching. From 1906 to 1908, Schulte served as coach of the football, baseball and track teams at Eastern Michigan University. In three years as Eastern Michigan's football coach, Schulte compiled a 9–6–1 record.
From 1909 to 1913, Schulte coached at Cape Girardeau College in Missouri, and he was also an assistant coach on the 1912 Michigan Wolverines football team
. From 1914 to 1919, Schulte coached football and track and field at Missouri. From 1919 to 1920, he was the head football coach at Nebraska, where he compiled an 8–6–3 record. He also served as the school's track coach from 1919 to 1938, and was an assistant coach for the football team from 1922 to 1927. Schulte also served as a coach on the U.S. track team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
. In later years, Schulte served as an instructor at coaching schools.
, where "[h]e developed state title contenders in baseball, football, and basketball". In the 1914-1915 season, his last at the high school, the basketball team posted a 14-1 record.
In 1915, Mitchell was hired as an assistant professor of physical education at Michigan State Normal College
. While at MSNC, Mitchell taught physical education courses geared toward the school's future teachers, covering such topics as playground direction and athletic coaching, he co-wrote a book about basketball, and he coached several sports. Mitchell was the head football coach for MSNC for the 1915 and 1916 seasons. He was also the head coach for the men's basketball
team for the 1915-16 and 1916-17 seasons, with a record of 25 wins and 5 losses, ranking him #1 at the school in winning percentage . Elton Rynearson
was the team captain for the 1916-1917 season, and succeeded Mitchell as the head coach. Although the team finished undefeated in Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
play in the 1916-1917 season, Kalamazoo College
was also undefeated, and is recorded by the MIAA as the champion for that year.
In 1917, Mitchell left MSNC for the University of Michigan, where he coached the first two seasons of varsity basketball, and institutied intramural athletics. For his work at MSNC and Michigan, and for his several books on the subject, Mitchell is considered the father of intramural sports.
Rynearson's return in 1925 sparked the most successful period in school history. From 1925 through 1930, the team achieved a 40-4-2 record, including perfect season
s in 1925 and 1927. From 1925 through 1927 they outscored opponents 405 points to 31 and registered 19 shutouts. They won the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Championship in 1925, and won the Michigan Collegiate Conference
championships in 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1930. Although less dominant, Rynearson's teams continued to have success throughout the 1930s, never having a losing season until the teams of 1940 and 1941 combined for a 2-10-3 record. The 1943 and 1945 teams (there was no team in 1944) were again successful, combining for a 7-0-1 record. However, following the end of World War II, Rynearson's teams again struggled, and he ended his coaching career on a streak of three losing seasons from 1946 through 1948. His 26 seasons as head coach are double those of the next-longest serving coach, and no Eastern Michigan University football coach has reached even half of Rynearson's win total of 114 games. Over the course of his career, he coached at least one year in every varsity sport at Michigan State Normal, including football, basketball, baseball and track, as well as serving as athletic director from 1948 to 1963.
In September 1969, Eastern Michigan dedicated its new football stadium as Rynearson Stadium
. The Eastern Michigan football
program has played its home games at Rynearson Stadium since the 1969 season. In 1976, Rynearson was posthumously named one of the inaugural members of the Eastern Michigan University Athletic Hall of Fame.
and a 20–6 victory.).
The coaching duties from 1921 through 1924 were split between Joseph McCulloch and James A. "Babe" Brown, each taking two seasons of work. The best season during this stretch was a 3–3 season in 1921.
team for six seasons from 1935 through 1940, including a 6-1-1 record in 1939. Ockerman was unable to find success with the Michigan State Normal football team, however, posting a 7-19 record in three seasons, including an 0-8 record in 1949.
, Fred Trosko was a multi-sport star at the University of Michigan in the late 1930s, earning nine letters in football, baseball and basketball, and earning both bachelor's and master's degree in education from the school. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps throughout World War II
, from 1946 until 1952 Trosko worked as a high school football coach in Michigan.
In July 1952, Trosko was hired as head football coach at Michigan State Normal College. The team improved markedly during Trosko's early years as head coach. In his first seven seasons, the team attained a record of 41–19–2, including a 7–1–1 record in 1953 and an 8–1–0 record in 1954. His teams won Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ("IIAC") championships in 1954 and 1957.
The team's success came to an abrupt end in 1959. Trosko's teams had a 29-game winless streak from the third game of the 1959 season through the fifth game of the 1962 season, following the decision of the Eastern Michigan administration not to award athletic scholarships. Fielding only non-scholarship athletes, Trosko's teams were unable to compete, and in August 1965, Trosko resigned as the result of "an apparent break with school administrators over policy."
Trosko had the second longest tenure of any head coach at the school. He also taught at Eastern Michigan and remained on the faculty at Eastern Michigan after retiring as football coach, ultimately retiring in 1981 as a professor emeritus. In 1982, he was inducted into the Eastern Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
was 3-1-1. In 1966, the team competed as an NCAA College Division independent school
and posted a 5-3-1 record.
, instead attending the University of Detroit, where he lettered four times in football, and twice in basketball. After several years of success coaching football at private hich schools in Detroit, and seven years as an assistant coach at Michigan State University
, during which time the team won two national championships, Boisture was hired as head coach at Eastern Michigan in 1967.
Under his leadership, the team produced the longest period of sustained success since Elton Rynearson
's days. The team posted winning seasons in all seven years of Boisture's coaching, including a 13-game winning streak that remains a school record. His 1971 squad finished the regular season 7-0-2, only allowing one touchdown in the last five games, before losing to Louisiana Tech in the Pioneer Bowl, the first bowl trip in school history. Boisture was named NCAA District Four "coach of the year" in 1971.
Boisture's tenure at Eastern Michigan is also notable for the construction of Rynearson Stadium
. In 1969, the new stadium, which was considered off-campus at the time, opened with a capacity of 15,500. Boisture's bowl-bound 1971 team played for one of just two sellout crowds in the stadium's history, a 0-0 tie against Eastern Kentucky on October 16, 1971 which drew 17,360 spectators. In February 1974, Boisture left Eastern Michigan to coach the Detroit Wheels
, in the World Football League
, who also played home games at Rynearson Stadium.
, where he was team captain in 1961
. In June 1962, Mans signed with the St. Louis Cardinals
of the NFL
, but he did not play professionally.
In 1963, Mans was hired as the ends coach for the Eastern Michigan football team, but he left after one year to serve as Michigan Tech
's head wrestling coach, assistant director of intramural athletics, and assistant football coach. In 1966, he accepted an assistant coaching position at the University of Michigan where he remained for eight years from 1966 to 1973, serving under both Bump Elliott
and Bo Schembechler
.
In 1974, Mans was hired as the head football coach at Eastern Michigan, where he remained for the 1974 and 1975 seasons. In his first season as head coach, Mans' team started the season with only one win in the first six games, but the team finished strong, going 3–1–1 in the final five games. In May 1976, Mans announced his resignation as Eastern Michigan's coach in what the Associated Press
described as a "surprise move." According to one newspaper report, Mans resigned "when it became apparent that EMU would place a greater emphasis on basketball, hiring former Detroit Pistons
Coach Ray Scott
."
After leaving Eastern Michigan, Mans went on to a long political career, serving as mayor of Trenton, Michigan
, from 1983 to 1989, and as a state representative from 1996 through 2002. He also held the position of City Administrator in Southgate
and Flat Rock, Michigan
.
at Western Michigan University
from 1959 to 1961, and in 1963, he played for the New York Jets
of the American Football League
. Chlebek came to Eastern Michigan from the University of Notre Dame
, where he was an assistant under Dan Devine
and coached future Pro Football Hall of Fame
quarterback
Joe Montana
. At Eastern Michigan, he compiled a 10–12 record from 1976 to 1977. At Boston College, he tallied a 12–21 mark and coached the only winless season in the program's history, a 0–11 campaign in 1978. From 1981 to 1982, he coached Kent State to a 4–18 record. He ended his college career on a 12-game losing streak. From Kent State he went to the Toronto Argonauts
of the Canadian Football League
as the offensive coordinator
in 1983. The Argonauts won the Grey Cup
in 1983.
, bringing the losing streak to 22 games; the team went on to lose five more consecutive games under interim coach Bob LaPointe before the streak was broken with a 9-7 win over Kent State on November 6, 1982. Under LaPointe, the team received widespread attention for their various attempts to end the streak, which included "bringing a coffin to the locker room before the game...as a reminder to kill the streak", and hiring a local hypnotist. Stock's teams were held scoreless seven times, his teams were outscored by a total of 809 points — nearly 18 points per game, and his final record of 6-38-1 gives him a 14.4% win percentage, easily the lowest of any coach to remain at Eastern more than one season.
Stock continued to coach football both at the collegiate level and the professional level, both in the United States Football League
and the National Football League
, until his retirement following the 2008 NFL season, but this was his only head coaching position. La Pointe went on to a long career as a high school football coach in southeastern Michigan, retiring in 2010.
, Harkema had achieved success as the head coach of Grand Valley State, where he compiled a record of 68–29–1 with winning seasons in nine of his ten years, reaching the NAIA semifinals in 1978.
Beginning in 1986, Harkema led Eastern Michigan to four consecutive winning seasons, including Eastern's only Mid-American Conference
championship and only 10-win season in 1987, when the team went to the 1987 California Bowl and upset 17½ point favorite San Jose State University for the only bowl game
win in school history. Harkema is credited with building the program at Eastern Michigan into a "Top-Shelf" program, and he coached one of just two EMU games at Rynearson Stadium
that sold-out: a 24-31 loss to Western Michigan on October 22, 1988 drew 23,003 (listed capacity at the time was 22,227), and a 0-0 tie against Eastern Kentucky on October 16, 1971 drew 17,360 (listed capacity at the time was 15,500).
In 1991, the EMU Board of Regents voted to change the school's mascot from "Hurons" to "Eagles", in a move that remains controversial to this day. Following the name change, the football team struggled, and after losing the first four games of the 1992 season, Harkema resigned, and assistant coach Jan Quarless
took over for the remainder of the season.
, was hired to take over the program. He stayed for just two seasons, before being hired by Louisville
, where he remained through 1997. From 1998 through 2001, Cooper was head coach at Alabama A&M. Cooper has also coached at Wisconsin
, Mississippi State
, the South Carolina
, and Notre Dame
.
, and after graduation he stayed with the school as an assistant coach. He applied unsuccessfully for several head coaching positions, and from 1991 through 1995 he was the offensive coordinator for the Utah
Utes
, during which time the team consistently featured one of the nation's top offenses.
When Eastern Michigan hired him as head coach in 1995, Rasnick brought a more open, pass-oriented offense to Eastern Michigan than his predecessor, Ron Cooper, had used, and Rasnick's recruiting noticeably favored junior-college transfers rather than high school seniors.
On November 16, 1999, three days after a 29-26 loss at Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan Athletic Director Dave Diles held a press conference to announce that he had fired Rasnick as head coach, and that defensive coordinator Tony Lombardi
would serve as the interim head coach for the final game of the season, four days later, saying, "I felt it was best to make a change at this time to begin an immediate search for a new head football coach. After undergoing a very thorough and comprehensive assessment of our football program I'm convinced that Rick Rasnick is not the person to take our football team to a Mid-American Conference championship level."
Through the end of the 2010 season, Rasnick's 1995 team remains the last Eastern Michigan Eagles football
team to finish with a winning record.
Diles designated running backs coach Al Lavan as the interim coach while the school conducted a national search for the new permanent coach, and under his leadership the team won two of their final three games.
, a native of nearby Ann Arbor, Michigan
, who was raised in Milan, Michigan
, played quarterback for Bowling Green State University. He was an assistant coach at Northwestern University from 1994 until 2003, when he was hired to head the Eastern Michigan program. He was fired in November, 2008, but coached the final game of the season against Central Michigan, which set numerous school records for offense.
in December 2008. At the time of his hiring by Eastern Michigan, he was one of six African American head coaches at Football Bowl Subdivision teams; the others (and their teams at the time) were Turner Gill
(Buffalo), Kevin Sumlin
(Houston
), Mike Locksley
(New Mexico
), Randy Shannon
(University of Miami
), and Mike Haywood (Miami University
). Prior to arriving at Eastern Michigan, English had been the defensive coordinator at Michigan in 2006 and 2007, and at Louisville in 2008.
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team that represents Eastern Michigan University
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in the Mid-American Conference
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, a part of the NCAA Division I. The team has had 40 head coaches, including four interim head coaches who each served less than one full season (Bob LaPointe
Bob LaPointe
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, Jan Quarless
Jan Quarless
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, Tony Lombardi
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, and Al Lavan), since its first recorded football game in 1891. The current coach is Ron English
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who first took the position for the 2009 season.
Many of EMU's head coaches have had brief tenures with the program; 18 head coaches served for one season or less. Among the more notable head coaches at EMU have been Clayton Teetzel
Clayton Teetzel
Clayton Tryon Teetzel was an American athlete and athletic coach. He played American football and competed in track for the University of Michigan from 1897 to 1899 and later coached football, basketball and track at Michigan State Normal College , Benton Harbor High School, Brigham Young...
(1900–1902), Henry Schulte
Henry Schulte
Henry Frank Schulte was an American football player and coach and also a college track and field coach...
(1906–1908), Elton Rynearson
Elton Rynearson
Elton James Rynearson, Sr. was an American athlete, coach, and athletic director. He was affiliated with Eastern Michigan University for most of his life, beginning his association with the school as a student in 1910 and retiring as the school's athletic director in...
(1917, 1919–1920, 1925–1948), Fred Trosko
Fred Trosko
Fred Trosko was an American football player and coach. He played at the halfback position for the University of Michigan football team from 1937 to 1939...
(1952–1964), Dan Boisture
Dan Boisture
Daniel P. Boisture, Jr. was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team from 1967 to 1973, compiling a record of 83-38-5....
(1967–1973), Mike Stock
Mike Stock (American football)
Mike Stock was an American football coach from 1961 through 2009. He coached for 26 years at the collegiate level, 17 years in the National Football League, one year in the United States Football League, and one year coaching high school football in Ohio; altogether he coached 14 different teams...
(1978–1982), and Jim Harkema
Jim Harkema
E. James Harkema is former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Grand Valley State University , from 1973 to 1982 and at Eastern Michigan University from 1983 to 1992, compiling a career college football record of 109–86–6...
(1983–1992). Rynearson was the longest-serving and winningest coach, with a record of 114-58-15 over 26 seasons, while Vern Bennett (1894) posted the highest winning percentage, 71.4%. Tony Lombardi was the shortest-tenured coach, both in time and number of games, leading the team only for five days, and only for the final game of the 1999 season.
The most recent head coach to leave Eastern Michigan with a winning record was Dan Boisture, who left after the 1973 season; only Boisture and Elton Rynearson coached more than two seasons and retired with winning records.
Coaches
Statistics correct as of the end of the 2010 college football season.| # | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | James M. Swift James M. Swift (American football) - References :... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Deane W. Kelley Deane W. Kelley Deane W. Kelley was an American football coach in the United States.-Coaching career:Deane Kelley was the head football coach for Michigan State Normal School football team located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He held that position for the 1892 season. His coaching record at Eastern Michigan was 2... |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0 | ||
| 3 | Ernest P. Goodrich Ernest P. Goodrich -References:... |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0 | ||
| 4 | Verne S. Bennett Verne S. Bennett - References :... |
7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0 | |||
| 5 | Marcus Cutler Marcus Cutler - References :... |
6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0 | |||
| 6 | Fred Green Fred Green -Military service and legal work:Green served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. He was a first lieutenant in the 31st Michigan Volunteer Infantry and later was promoted to battalion adjutant. After the war, he returned to Ypsilanti as the city attorney, as well as attorney for the... |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 1 | 0 | |||
| 7 | A. Bird Glaspie A. Bird Glaspie -Newspaper and political career:Glaspie graduated from the Michigan State Normal School in 1898. He thereupon enlisted in the 31st Michigan Infantry during the Spanish-American War.... |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0 | |||
| 8 | Enoch C. Thorne Enoch Thorne -Later years:At the time of the U.S. Census of 1900, Thorne was living with his parents in Ypsilanti and working in a woolen mill.In a September 1918 draft registration card, Thorne was living in Port Huron, Michigan, and identified his present occupation as manufacturer and his employment status... |
8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0 | |||
| 9 | Dwight Watson Dwight Watson (American football) -Military service:Watson served with the 31st Michigan Volunteers Company G in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. He was under the command of former Michigan Normal head football coach and future Governor of Michigan Fred Green.-Later years:... |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0 | |||
| 10 | Clayton T. Teetzel Clayton Teetzel Clayton Tryon Teetzel was an American athlete and athletic coach. He played American football and competed in track for the University of Michigan from 1897 to 1899 and later coached football, basketball and track at Michigan State Normal College , Benton Harbor High School, Brigham Young... |
21 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 11 | Hunter Forest Hunter Forest - References :... |
8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 12 | Daniel H. Lawrence Daniel H. Lawrence - References :... |
16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 13 | Henry F. Schulte Henry Schulte Henry Frank Schulte was an American football player and coach and also a college track and field coach... |
16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 14 | Clare Hunter Clare Hunter - References :... |
6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 15 | Curry Hicks Curry Hicks -UMass Amherst:In 1911, after receiving a degree from Michigan State Normal College, Hicks was hired as the athletic director at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was the school's first Director of Athletics and Student Health and held the post for 38 years until... |
6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 16 | Dwight Wilson Dwight Wilson (American football) Dwight Wilson was an American football coach in the United States.-Coaching career:Wilson was the head college football coach for the Michigan State Normal Normalites located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and he held that position for the 1911 season. His coaching record at the school was 3 wins and 4... |
7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 17 | Leroy Brown | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 18 | Dr. Thomas Ransom | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 19 | Elmer C. Mitchell Elmer Mitchell Elmer D. Mitchell was an American football and basketball coach in Michigan who is considered the father of intramural sports. He was the first varsity basketball coach at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the founder of that school's intramural sports program... |
11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 20 | Elton J. Rynearson Elton Rynearson Elton James Rynearson, Sr. was an American athlete, coach, and athletic director. He was affiliated with Eastern Michigan University for most of his life, beginning his association with the school as a student in 1910 and retiring as the school's athletic director in... |
187 | 114 | 58 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| 21 | Lynn Bell Lynn Bell Lynn Everett Bell was an American football coach and professional baseball player in the United States. He played professional baseball from 1906 to 1914 and served as the head football coach for Michigan State Normal School in 1918.-Early years:Bell was born in 1883 in Michigan... |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 22 | Joseph McCulloch Joseph McCulloch Joseph Howard McCulloch was an American football, baseball, and basketball coach, teacher and athletic director in the United States. He played college football and baseball at Springfield College from 1908 to 1910... |
13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 23 | James A. "Babe" Brown James Brown (American football coach) James A. "Babe" Brown was an American football coach in the United States.-Michigan State Normal:James Brown was the head college football coach for the Michigan State normal Normalites located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and he held that position for the 1923 and 1924 seasons... |
16 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 24 | Harry Ockerman Harry Ockerman -Basketball:-External links:... |
26 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 25 | Fred Trosko Fred Trosko Fred Trosko was an American football player and coach. He played at the halfback position for the University of Michigan football team from 1937 to 1939... |
110 | 50 | 56 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| 26 | Jerry Raymond Jerry Raymond -Coaching career:Raymond was the head college football coach for the Michigan State Normal Hurons located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He held that position for the 1965 and 1966 seasons, and his coaching record at the school was 8 wins, 7 losses and 2 ties... |
17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 27 | Dan Boisture Dan Boisture Daniel P. Boisture, Jr. was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team from 1967 to 1973, compiling a record of 83-38-5.... |
68 | 45 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 28 | George Mans George Mans George W. Mans is a former American football player and coach and politician. He was the captain of the 1961 Michigan Wolverines football team, an assistant football coach at the University of Michigan from 1966 to 1973, and the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team from 1974 to... |
21 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 29 | Ed Chlebek Ed Chlebek -External links:... |
22 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 30 | Mike Stock Mike Stock (American football) Mike Stock was an American football coach from 1961 through 2009. He coached for 26 years at the collegiate level, 17 years in the National Football League, one year in the United States Football League, and one year coaching high school football in Ohio; altogether he coached 14 different teams... |
45 | 6 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 31 | Bob LaPointe Bob LaPointe Bob LaPointe was an American football coach in Michigan from 1968 through 2010. He is best known for winning Michigan's Class B high school state championship in 1975, and for serving as interim head coach at Eastern Michigan University for part of the 1982 season.From 1974 through 1977, LaPointe... |
8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 32 | Jim Harkema Jim Harkema E. James Harkema is former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Grand Valley State University , from 1973 to 1982 and at Eastern Michigan University from 1983 to 1992, compiling a career college football record of 109–86–6... |
103 | 41 | 57 | 5 | 32 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 33 | Jan Quarless Jan Quarless Jan Quarless is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Eastern Michigan University in 1992 and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1997 to 2000, compiling a career college football record of 15–36... |
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Pre-1915
James M. SwiftJames M. Swift (American football)
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was raised in Massachusetts, where American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
went through much of its early development, and he is credited with introducing "scientific football" to Michigan State Normal School. Modern records credit Swift as the school's first football coach, holding that position for the 1891 season.
Following Swift, the football team was coached by a series of men who held the position for a single year each, none of whom were professional coaches in today's sense. About Deane W. Kelley
Deane W. Kelley
Deane W. Kelley was an American football coach in the United States.-Coaching career:Deane Kelley was the head football coach for Michigan State Normal School football team located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He held that position for the 1892 season. His coaching record at Eastern Michigan was 2...
(1892), Verne S. Bennett
Verne S. Bennett
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(1894), Enoch Thorne
Enoch Thorne
-Later years:At the time of the U.S. Census of 1900, Thorne was living with his parents in Ypsilanti and working in a woolen mill.In a September 1918 draft registration card, Thorne was living in Port Huron, Michigan, and identified his present occupation as manufacturer and his employment status...
(1898), Dwight Watson
Dwight Watson (American football)
-Military service:Watson served with the 31st Michigan Volunteers Company G in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. He was under the command of former Michigan Normal head football coach and future Governor of Michigan Fred Green.-Later years:...
(1899), Hunter Forest
Hunter Forest
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(1903), Daniel Lawrence
Daniel H. Lawrence
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(1904–1905), Clare Hunter
Clare Hunter
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(1909), Curry Hicks
Curry Hicks
-UMass Amherst:In 1911, after receiving a degree from Michigan State Normal College, Hicks was hired as the athletic director at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was the school's first Director of Athletics and Student Health and held the post for 38 years until...
(1910), Dwight Wilson
Dwight Wilson (American football)
Dwight Wilson was an American football coach in the United States.-Coaching career:Wilson was the head college football coach for the Michigan State Normal Normalites located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and he held that position for the 1911 season. His coaching record at the school was 3 wins and 4...
(1911), Leroy Brown (1912–1913; basketball also), and Thomas Ransom
Thomas Ransom (coach)
Dr. Thomas Ransom was an American football and basketball coach in the United States.-Coaching career:Ransom was the head college football coach for the Michigan State Normal Normalites located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and he held that position for the 1914 season. His coaching record at Normal was...
(1914; basketball also) little is known beyond the years they held the position, the team's schedule, and occasional tidbits from The Aurora, the school yearbook. Other early coaches went on to great success in other fields. Ernest P. Goodrich
Ernest P. Goodrich
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(1893) was a pioneer in urban planning
Urban planning
Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....
and engineering, the first president of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
Institute of Transportation Engineers
The Institute of Transportation Engineers or ITE is an international educational and scientific association of transportation professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs. ITE was founded in 1930 as the Institute of Traffic Engineers and its first president was Ernest P...
, and the president of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers. A. Bird Glaspie
A. Bird Glaspie
-Newspaper and political career:Glaspie graduated from the Michigan State Normal School in 1898. He thereupon enlisted in the 31st Michigan Infantry during the Spanish-American War....
held various political posts in Michigan, and served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1917 until 1922 and the Michigan Senate
Michigan Senate
The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. The Senate consists of 38 members, who are elected from constituencies having approximately 212,400 to 263,500 residents....
from 1923 through 1924.
Most notable of these early coaches was Fred Green
Fred Green
-Military service and legal work:Green served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. He was a first lieutenant in the 31st Michigan Volunteer Infantry and later was promoted to battalion adjutant. After the war, he returned to Ypsilanti as the city attorney, as well as attorney for the...
, who, in 1896, coached the team to the championship of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is an athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. The nine teams in the conference are all located in the states of Michigan and Indiana. The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association was established on March 24, 1888, making...
. Green served 10 years as mayor of Ionia, Michigan
Ionia, Michigan
Ionia is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Ionia County, Michigan, United States. The population was 11,394 at the 2010 census. Every late July it hosts what may be the world's largest free-admission fair...
, from 1913 until 1922. In 1926, Green was elected Governor of Michigan
Governor of Michigan
The Governor of Michigan is the chief executive of the U.S. State of Michigan. The current Governor is Rick Snyder, a member of the Republican Party.-Gubernatorial elections and term of office:...
, and he was re-elected to a second two-year term in 1928.
Clayton Teetzel (1900-1902)
Clayton TeetzelClayton Teetzel
Clayton Tryon Teetzel was an American athlete and athletic coach. He played American football and competed in track for the University of Michigan from 1897 to 1899 and later coached football, basketball and track at Michigan State Normal College , Benton Harbor High School, Brigham Young...
was the first career coach at Michigan State Normal. Teetzel played end on the 1897
1897 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1897 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1897 college football season. The team, with former Michigan halfback, Gustave Ferbert, as head coach, compiled a record of 6–1–1 and outscored opponents by a combined score of 168 to 31. The team suffered its...
and 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team
1898 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1898 college football season. The team, with Gustave Ferbert as head coach, went 10–0 and became the first Michigan football team to win the Western Conference championship. The first great Michigan football...
s before switching to halfback in 1899
1899 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1899 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1899 college football season. The team was coached by former Michigan halfback Gustave Ferbert. The Wolverines opened the season with six consecutive shutouts, outscoring opponents in those six contests by a...
. Teetzel graduated from the University of Michigan Law School with an LL.B.
Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...
degree in 1900, following which he became the head coach at Michigan State Normal. After three seasons at MSNC, during which he compiled a 6-14-1 record, Teetzel left the school to coach football at Benton Harbor High School
Benton Harbor High School
Benton Harbor High School is a high school in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by Benton Harbor Area Schools.The school is made up of a number of "learning communities":*Communication, Arts & Business Academy...
in 1903, 1904, and 1905. Teetzel went on to Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
(1905–1908) and Utah State Agricultural College
Utah State University
Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....
(1908–1916), where he headed the athletic departments and coached a variety or sports, including basketball and track.
Henry Schulte (1906-1908)
Henry Schulte was the second career coach to work at Michigan State Normal. Schulte played guardGuard (American football)
In American and Canadian football, a guard is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team....
and center
Center (American football)
Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...
at Michigan for Fielding H. Yost's famous "Point-a-Minute" teams of 1903
1903 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1903 college football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost...
, 1904
1904 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1904 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1904 college football season. In the team's fourth season under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the Wolverines compiled a perfect 10–0 record and outscored opponents 567–22. The 1904 team was the fourth of Yost's...
, and 1905
1905 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1905 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1905 college football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines played their home games at Regents Field...
. In 1906, in response to charges of professionalism at major college football programs, the faculty at Michigan ruled Schulte and two other football players academically ineligible. As a result, Schulte missed the 1906 season.
While ineligible at Michigan, Schulte began a long career in coaching. From 1906 to 1908, Schulte served as coach of the football, baseball and track teams at Eastern Michigan University. In three years as Eastern Michigan's football coach, Schulte compiled a 9–6–1 record.
From 1909 to 1913, Schulte coached at Cape Girardeau College in Missouri, and he was also an assistant coach on the 1912 Michigan Wolverines football team
1912 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1912 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1912 college football season. The team's head coach was Fielding H. Yost...
. From 1914 to 1919, Schulte coached football and track and field at Missouri. From 1919 to 1920, he was the head football coach at Nebraska, where he compiled an 8–6–3 record. He also served as the school's track coach from 1919 to 1938, and was an assistant coach for the football team from 1922 to 1927. Schulte also served as a coach on the U.S. track team at the 1928 Summer Olympics
1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...
. In later years, Schulte served as an instructor at coaching schools.
Elmer Mitchell (1915-1916)
Elmer Mitchell attended the University of Michigan, where he played on the varsity baseball team for three years, and he was the team captain in 1912, his senior year. In the fall of 1912, he was hired as a teacher and coach at Union High SchoolUnion High School (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Union High School is one of the five high schools in Grand Rapids Public School district. Union has a student population of around 1,200 students for the 2010/2011 school year. The current principal is Justin Jennings, along with assistant principals Aida Toledo and Belinda Jimenez...
, where "[h]e developed state title contenders in baseball, football, and basketball". In the 1914-1915 season, his last at the high school, the basketball team posted a 14-1 record.
In 1915, Mitchell was hired as an assistant professor of physical education at Michigan State Normal College
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
. While at MSNC, Mitchell taught physical education courses geared toward the school's future teachers, covering such topics as playground direction and athletic coaching, he co-wrote a book about basketball, and he coached several sports. Mitchell was the head football coach for MSNC for the 1915 and 1916 seasons. He was also the head coach for the men's basketball
Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball
The Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball team has appeared in four NCAA Division I tournaments, and have a 3-4 record, tied for third best among Michigan colleges...
team for the 1915-16 and 1916-17 seasons, with a record of 25 wins and 5 losses, ranking him #1 at the school in winning percentage . Elton Rynearson
Elton Rynearson
Elton James Rynearson, Sr. was an American athlete, coach, and athletic director. He was affiliated with Eastern Michigan University for most of his life, beginning his association with the school as a student in 1910 and retiring as the school's athletic director in...
was the team captain for the 1916-1917 season, and succeeded Mitchell as the head coach. Although the team finished undefeated in Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is an athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. The nine teams in the conference are all located in the states of Michigan and Indiana. The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association was established on March 24, 1888, making...
play in the 1916-1917 season, Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1833, the college is among the 100 oldest in the country. Today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other U.S...
was also undefeated, and is recorded by the MIAA as the champion for that year.
In 1917, Mitchell left MSNC for the University of Michigan, where he coached the first two seasons of varsity basketball, and institutied intramural athletics. For his work at MSNC and Michigan, and for his several books on the subject, Mitchell is considered the father of intramural sports.
Elton Rynearson (1917, 1919-1920, 1925-1948)
Following the smallpox-shortened 1916 season, during which he was an assistant coach/captain, Rynearson was hired to replace Elmer Mitchell as head coach. Although Rynearson's offense was more effective, outscoring opponents 111 to 82, more than half of the scoring came in a single game, a 63-0 rout of Central Michigan, and the team ended the season with a 3-4 record. After the shortened 3-game 1918 season was coached by Lynn Bell, Rynearson returned to coach the 1919 squad to their first winning season in four years. After another winning season in 1920, other coaches assumed the duties for four years, during which the team managed a 9-15-4 record.Rynearson's return in 1925 sparked the most successful period in school history. From 1925 through 1930, the team achieved a 40-4-2 record, including perfect season
Perfect Season
A perfect season is any sports season, excluding the playoff portion of a season, in which a team remains undefeated and untied. The feat is extremely rare at the professional level of any team sport, and has occurred more commonly at the collegiate level in the United States.A perfect season may...
s in 1925 and 1927. From 1925 through 1927 they outscored opponents 405 points to 31 and registered 19 shutouts. They won the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is an athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. The nine teams in the conference are all located in the states of Michigan and Indiana. The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association was established on March 24, 1888, making...
Championship in 1925, and won the Michigan Collegiate Conference
Michigan Collegiate Conference
The Michigan Collegiate Conference was an athletic conference that existed in the United States for six years, from 1927 through 1932.Formed in December 1926, the members were Michigan State Normal , Western State Teachers College , Central State Teachers College , and the College of the...
championships in 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1930. Although less dominant, Rynearson's teams continued to have success throughout the 1930s, never having a losing season until the teams of 1940 and 1941 combined for a 2-10-3 record. The 1943 and 1945 teams (there was no team in 1944) were again successful, combining for a 7-0-1 record. However, following the end of World War II, Rynearson's teams again struggled, and he ended his coaching career on a streak of three losing seasons from 1946 through 1948. His 26 seasons as head coach are double those of the next-longest serving coach, and no Eastern Michigan University football coach has reached even half of Rynearson's win total of 114 games. Over the course of his career, he coached at least one year in every varsity sport at Michigan State Normal, including football, basketball, baseball and track, as well as serving as athletic director from 1948 to 1963.
In September 1969, Eastern Michigan dedicated its new football stadium as Rynearson Stadium
Rynearson Stadium
Rynearson Stadium is a stadium in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Eastern Michigan University Eagles. It held its first game on September 27, 1969 when EMU upset the University of Akron, 10-3. Currently, the stadium has seating for...
. The Eastern Michigan football
Eastern Michigan Eagles football
The Eastern Michigan Eagles are a college football program at Eastern Michigan University. They compete in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Mid-American Conference...
program has played its home games at Rynearson Stadium since the 1969 season. In 1976, Rynearson was posthumously named one of the inaugural members of the Eastern Michigan University Athletic Hall of Fame.
Bell, McCulloch, and Brown (1918, 1921-1924)
Lynn Bell coached the team for 1918 season, which was a relatively shorter season of only three games (1917 and 1919 seasons each had a schedule of seven games). The season ended with a trip to Hillsdale CollegeHillsdale College
Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, is a co-educational liberal arts college known for being the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex; its refusal of government funding; and its monthly publication, Imprimis...
and a 20–6 victory.).
The coaching duties from 1921 through 1924 were split between Joseph McCulloch and James A. "Babe" Brown, each taking two seasons of work. The best season during this stretch was a 3–3 season in 1921.
Harry Ockerman (1949-1951)
After Rynearson moved from coaching into an administrative role, Harry Ockerman coached the football team for three seasons. Ockerman had a previous affiliation with the school, having coached men's basketball for three seasons from 1932 to 1935 (bookended by Rynearson), and he was also an experienced football coach, having led the Bowling Green Falcons footballBowling Green Falcons football
The Bowling Green Falcons football team is the interscholastic football team at Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green competes as a member of the Mid-American Conference in the East Division. The Falcons have won ten conference championships....
team for six seasons from 1935 through 1940, including a 6-1-1 record in 1939. Ockerman was unable to find success with the Michigan State Normal football team, however, posting a 7-19 record in three seasons, including an 0-8 record in 1949.
Fred Trosko (1952-1964)
A native of Flint, MichiganFlint, Michigan
Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...
, Fred Trosko was a multi-sport star at the University of Michigan in the late 1930s, earning nine letters in football, baseball and basketball, and earning both bachelor's and master's degree in education from the school. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps throughout World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, from 1946 until 1952 Trosko worked as a high school football coach in Michigan.
In July 1952, Trosko was hired as head football coach at Michigan State Normal College. The team improved markedly during Trosko's early years as head coach. In his first seven seasons, the team attained a record of 41–19–2, including a 7–1–1 record in 1953 and an 8–1–0 record in 1954. His teams won Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ("IIAC") championships in 1954 and 1957.
The team's success came to an abrupt end in 1959. Trosko's teams had a 29-game winless streak from the third game of the 1959 season through the fifth game of the 1962 season, following the decision of the Eastern Michigan administration not to award athletic scholarships. Fielding only non-scholarship athletes, Trosko's teams were unable to compete, and in August 1965, Trosko resigned as the result of "an apparent break with school administrators over policy."
Trosko had the second longest tenure of any head coach at the school. He also taught at Eastern Michigan and remained on the faculty at Eastern Michigan after retiring as football coach, ultimately retiring in 1981 as a professor emeritus. In 1982, he was inducted into the Eastern Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
Jerry Raymond (1965-1966)
For two years after Trosko's resignation, Jerry Raymond coached the football team. In 1965 the team registered a 3-4-1 record, but with three non-conference losses, their record in the Presidents' Athletic ConferencePresidents' Athletic Conference
The Presidents' Athletic Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are private, liberal arts institutions of higher learning located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky....
was 3-1-1. In 1966, the team competed as an NCAA College Division independent school
NCAA Division II independent schools
NCAA Division II independent schools are four-year institutions that field intercollegiate teams in football and other sports, but which are not formally affiliated with any athletic conference.-Full Division II member:...
and posted a 5-3-1 record.
Dan Boisture (1967-1973)
A Detroit native and World War II hero, Boisture turned down an offer to play basketball at Notre DameNotre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The program competes in the Big East Conference of NCAA Division I. The school holds two national championships in...
, instead attending the University of Detroit, where he lettered four times in football, and twice in basketball. After several years of success coaching football at private hich schools in Detroit, and seven years as an assistant coach at Michigan State University
Michigan State Spartans football
The Michigan State Spartans football program represents Michigan State University in college football as members of the Big Ten Conference at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level...
, during which time the team won two national championships, Boisture was hired as head coach at Eastern Michigan in 1967.
Under his leadership, the team produced the longest period of sustained success since Elton Rynearson
Elton Rynearson
Elton James Rynearson, Sr. was an American athlete, coach, and athletic director. He was affiliated with Eastern Michigan University for most of his life, beginning his association with the school as a student in 1910 and retiring as the school's athletic director in...
's days. The team posted winning seasons in all seven years of Boisture's coaching, including a 13-game winning streak that remains a school record. His 1971 squad finished the regular season 7-0-2, only allowing one touchdown in the last five games, before losing to Louisiana Tech in the Pioneer Bowl, the first bowl trip in school history. Boisture was named NCAA District Four "coach of the year" in 1971.
Rynearson Stadium
Rynearson Stadium is a stadium in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Eastern Michigan University Eagles. It held its first game on September 27, 1969 when EMU upset the University of Akron, 10-3. Currently, the stadium has seating for...
. In 1969, the new stadium, which was considered off-campus at the time, opened with a capacity of 15,500. Boisture's bowl-bound 1971 team played for one of just two sellout crowds in the stadium's history, a 0-0 tie against Eastern Kentucky on October 16, 1971 which drew 17,360 spectators. In February 1974, Boisture left Eastern Michigan to coach the Detroit Wheels
Detroit Wheels
The Detroit Wheels were an American football team, a charter member of the ill-fated World Football League.The Wheels were founded December 13, 1973 by ten investors, whose number eventually grew to 33, including singer Marvin Gaye, Motown Records vice-president Esther Edwards, and Little Caesars...
, in the World Football League
World Football League
The World Football League was a short-lived gridiron football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii. The...
, who also played home games at Rynearson Stadium.
George Mans (1974-1975)
A native Detroiter, George Mans was a multi-sport athlete in high school, and played football at MichiganMichigan Wolverines football
The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history...
, where he was team captain in 1961
1961 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1961 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1961 college football season. The team's head coach was Bump Elliott...
. In June 1962, Mans signed with the St. Louis Cardinals
Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
of the NFL
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
, but he did not play professionally.
In 1963, Mans was hired as the ends coach for the Eastern Michigan football team, but he left after one year to serve as Michigan Tech
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University is a public research university located in Houghton, Michigan, United States. Its main campus sits on on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake...
's head wrestling coach, assistant director of intramural athletics, and assistant football coach. In 1966, he accepted an assistant coaching position at the University of Michigan where he remained for eight years from 1966 to 1973, serving under both Bump Elliott
Bump Elliott
Chalmers W. "Bump" Elliott is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played halfback at Purdue University and the University of Michigan...
and Bo Schembechler
Bo Schembechler
Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler, Jr. was an American football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989, compiling a career record of 234–65–8...
.
In 1974, Mans was hired as the head football coach at Eastern Michigan, where he remained for the 1974 and 1975 seasons. In his first season as head coach, Mans' team started the season with only one win in the first six games, but the team finished strong, going 3–1–1 in the final five games. In May 1976, Mans announced his resignation as Eastern Michigan's coach in what the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
described as a "surprise move." According to one newspaper report, Mans resigned "when it became apparent that EMU would place a greater emphasis on basketball, hiring former Detroit Pistons
Detroit Pistons
The Detroit Pistons are a franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. It was originally founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons as a member of the National Basketball League in 1941, where...
Coach Ray Scott
Ray Scott (basketball)
John Raymond Scott is a retired American professional basketball player and former head coach of the Detroit Pistons...
."
After leaving Eastern Michigan, Mans went on to a long political career, serving as mayor of Trenton, Michigan
Trenton, Michigan
Trenton is a small city in Wayne County in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 18,853...
, from 1983 to 1989, and as a state representative from 1996 through 2002. He also held the position of City Administrator in Southgate
Southgate, Michigan
Southgate is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 30,047 at the 2010 census.Southgate was the last city to incorporate from the former Ecorse Township, gaining city status in October 1958...
and Flat Rock, Michigan
Flat Rock, Michigan
- Racial makeup :As of the census of 2000, there were 8,488 people, 3,181 households, and 2,306 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,266.9 per square mile . There were 3,291 housing units at an average density of 491.2 per square mile...
.
Ed Chlebek (1976-1977)
Chlebek played college football as a quarterbackQuarterback
Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
at Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University is a public university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B. Waldo, and as of the Fall 2010 semester, its enrollment is 25,045....
from 1959 to 1961, and in 1963, he played for the New York Jets
New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
of the American Football League
American Football League
The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...
. Chlebek came to Eastern Michigan from the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
, where he was an assistant under Dan Devine
Dan Devine
Daniel John Devine was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach football coach at Arizona State University from 1955 to 1957, the University of Missouri from 1958 to 1970, and the University of Notre Dame from 1975 to 1980, compiling a career college football mark of...
and coached future Pro Football Hall of Fame
Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
quarterback
Quarterback
Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
Joe Montana
Joe Montana
Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr. , nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe, The Golden Great and Comeback Joe, is a retired American football player. Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played quarterback for the next 14 seasons...
. At Eastern Michigan, he compiled a 10–12 record from 1976 to 1977. At Boston College, he tallied a 12–21 mark and coached the only winless season in the program's history, a 0–11 campaign in 1978. From 1981 to 1982, he coached Kent State to a 4–18 record. He ended his college career on a 12-game losing streak. From Kent State he went to the Toronto Argonauts
Toronto Argonauts
The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...
of the Canadian Football League
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
as the offensive coordinator
Offensive coordinator
An offensive coordinator is a member of the coaching staff of a gridiron football team who is in charge of the offense. Generally, along with his defensive counterpart, he represents the second level of command structure after the head coach...
in 1983. The Argonauts won the Grey Cup
Grey Cup
The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...
in 1983.
Mike Stock and Bob LaPointe (1978-1982)
Both Mike Stock and Bob LaPointe had lengthy coaching careers, but their time at Eastern Michigan University is primarily notable for a school-record 27-game losing streak from 1980 through 1982, including a winless season in 1981. Stock was fired after the team lost the first three games of 1982, including a 49-12 pasting at Louisiana Tech and 35-0 shutout at Miami UniversityMiami University
Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...
, bringing the losing streak to 22 games; the team went on to lose five more consecutive games under interim coach Bob LaPointe before the streak was broken with a 9-7 win over Kent State on November 6, 1982. Under LaPointe, the team received widespread attention for their various attempts to end the streak, which included "bringing a coffin to the locker room before the game...as a reminder to kill the streak", and hiring a local hypnotist. Stock's teams were held scoreless seven times, his teams were outscored by a total of 809 points — nearly 18 points per game, and his final record of 6-38-1 gives him a 14.4% win percentage, easily the lowest of any coach to remain at Eastern more than one season.
Stock continued to coach football both at the collegiate level and the professional level, both in the United States Football League
United States Football League
The United States Football League was an American football league which was in active operation from 1983 to 1987. It played a spring/summer schedule in its first three seasons and a traditional autumn/winter schedule was set to commence before league operations ceased.The USFL was conceived in...
and the National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
, until his retirement following the 2008 NFL season, but this was his only head coaching position. La Pointe went on to a long career as a high school football coach in southeastern Michigan, retiring in 2010.
Jim Harkema and Jan Quarless (1983-1992)
Following the disastrous end of the Stock/LaPointe years, Eastern Michigan conducted a national coaching search, which resulted in the hiring of Michigan native Jim Harkema in 1983. An alumnus of Kalamazoo CollegeKalamazoo College
Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1833, the college is among the 100 oldest in the country. Today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other U.S...
, Harkema had achieved success as the head coach of Grand Valley State, where he compiled a record of 68–29–1 with winning seasons in nine of his ten years, reaching the NAIA semifinals in 1978.
Beginning in 1986, Harkema led Eastern Michigan to four consecutive winning seasons, including Eastern's only Mid-American Conference
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members...
championship and only 10-win season in 1987, when the team went to the 1987 California Bowl and upset 17½ point favorite San Jose State University for the only bowl game
Bowl game
In North America, a bowl game is commonly considered to refer to one of a number of post-season college football games. Prior to 2002, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating...
win in school history. Harkema is credited with building the program at Eastern Michigan into a "Top-Shelf" program, and he coached one of just two EMU games at Rynearson Stadium
Rynearson Stadium
Rynearson Stadium is a stadium in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Eastern Michigan University Eagles. It held its first game on September 27, 1969 when EMU upset the University of Akron, 10-3. Currently, the stadium has seating for...
that sold-out: a 24-31 loss to Western Michigan on October 22, 1988 drew 23,003 (listed capacity at the time was 22,227), and a 0-0 tie against Eastern Kentucky on October 16, 1971 drew 17,360 (listed capacity at the time was 15,500).
In 1991, the EMU Board of Regents voted to change the school's mascot from "Hurons" to "Eagles", in a move that remains controversial to this day. Following the name change, the football team struggled, and after losing the first four games of the 1992 season, Harkema resigned, and assistant coach Jan Quarless
Jan Quarless
Jan Quarless is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Eastern Michigan University in 1992 and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1997 to 2000, compiling a career college football record of 15–36...
took over for the remainder of the season.
Ron Cooper (1993-1994)
In 1993, Ron Cooper, an alumnus of Jacksonville State UniversityJacksonville State University
Jacksonville State University is a regional public coeducational university located in Jacksonville, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1883, Jacksonville State offers programs of study in four academic units leading to Bachelor's, Master's, and Education Specialist degrees, in addition to continuing and...
, was hired to take over the program. He stayed for just two seasons, before being hired by Louisville
Louisville Cardinals football
The Louisville Cardinals football team represents the University of Louisville in college football as a member of the Big East Conference. Howard Schnellenberger started the program's rise to relevancy after winning the Miami Hurricanes' first national championship...
, where he remained through 1997. From 1998 through 2001, Cooper was head coach at Alabama A&M. Cooper has also coached at Wisconsin
Wisconsin Badgers football
The Wisconsin Badgers are a college football program that represents the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football...
, Mississippi State
Mississippi State Bulldogs football
The Mississippi State Bulldogs football program represents Mississippi State University in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing as a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference. Mississippi State has produced 38 All-Americans, 171 All-SEC selections, and 124...
, the South Carolina
South Carolina Gamecocks football
The South Carolina Gamecocks football team represents the University of South Carolina in NCAA Division I college football. The Gamecocks have been a member of the Southeastern Conference since 1992. Steve Spurrier is the current head coach, and the team plays its home games at Williams-Brice...
, and Notre Dame
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the football team of the University of Notre Dame. The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly.Notre Dame competes as an Independent at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level, and is a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series coalition. It is an...
.
Rick Rasnick and Tony Lombardi (1995-1999)
Rick Rasnick attended San Jose State UniversitySan José State University
San Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States...
, and after graduation he stayed with the school as an assistant coach. He applied unsuccessfully for several head coaching positions, and from 1991 through 1995 he was the offensive coordinator for the Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
Utes
Utah Utes football
The Utah Utes football program is a college football team that currently competes in the Pacific-12 Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I and represents the University of Utah. The Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Rice–Eccles...
, during which time the team consistently featured one of the nation's top offenses.
When Eastern Michigan hired him as head coach in 1995, Rasnick brought a more open, pass-oriented offense to Eastern Michigan than his predecessor, Ron Cooper, had used, and Rasnick's recruiting noticeably favored junior-college transfers rather than high school seniors.
On November 16, 1999, three days after a 29-26 loss at Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan Athletic Director Dave Diles held a press conference to announce that he had fired Rasnick as head coach, and that defensive coordinator Tony Lombardi
Tony Lombardi
Tony E. Lombardi is an American football player and coach in the United States.-Playing career:Lombardi attended Rich East High School in his hometown of Park Forest, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, graduating in 1980...
would serve as the interim head coach for the final game of the season, four days later, saying, "I felt it was best to make a change at this time to begin an immediate search for a new head football coach. After undergoing a very thorough and comprehensive assessment of our football program I'm convinced that Rick Rasnick is not the person to take our football team to a Mid-American Conference championship level."
Through the end of the 2010 season, Rasnick's 1995 team remains the last Eastern Michigan Eagles football
Eastern Michigan Eagles football
The Eastern Michigan Eagles are a college football program at Eastern Michigan University. They compete in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the Mid-American Conference...
team to finish with a winning record.
Jeff Woodruff and Al Lavan (2000-2003)
After firing Rick Rasnick, and allowing the contracts of all his assistant coaches to expire, athletic director Dave Diles hired Jeff Woodruff as the head football coach to begin in 2000. Woodruff's first season, in which the team posted a 3-8 record turned out to be the best of his tenure . Following a 38-10 loss to Central Michigan on November 1, 2003, Diles fired Woodruff, saying, "Jeff Woodruff has helped develop our program with quality young men, but the team is not on the competitive level that we felt should be after four years."Diles designated running backs coach Al Lavan as the interim coach while the school conducted a national search for the new permanent coach, and under his leadership the team won two of their final three games.
Jeff Genyk (2004-2008)
Jeff GenykJeff Genyk
Jeff Genyk is currently the Special Teams Coordinator and Tight End Coach for The University of California. He was also a television analyst for Atlantic Coast Conference College Football for ESPN during the 2009 season and is the former head college football coach at Eastern Michigan...
, a native of nearby Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
, who was raised in Milan, Michigan
Milan, Michigan
Milan is a city in Monroe and Washtenaw counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,775 at the 2000 census. About 60% of the city's area and 75% of its residents are located on the Washtenaw County side adjacent to York Township in Washtenaw County; while 40% percent of the...
, played quarterback for Bowling Green State University. He was an assistant coach at Northwestern University from 1994 until 2003, when he was hired to head the Eastern Michigan program. He was fired in November, 2008, but coached the final game of the season against Central Michigan, which set numerous school records for offense.
Ron English (2009-present)
Ron English was hired as head coach at Eastern MichiganEastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
in December 2008. At the time of his hiring by Eastern Michigan, he was one of six African American head coaches at Football Bowl Subdivision teams; the others (and their teams at the time) were Turner Gill
Turner Gill
Turner Hillery Gill is an American football coach who most recently served as the head coach at Kansas from 2010-2011, and was one of 11 African-American head coaches in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision at the time of his hiring.-College:Gill graduated from Arlington Heights High...
(Buffalo), Kevin Sumlin
Kevin Sumlin
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(Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
), Mike Locksley
Mike Locksley
Mike Locksley is an American football coach. After serving as an assistant coach for several college football squads, he became the 29th head coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos football team in 2009...
(New Mexico
University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
), Randy Shannon
Randy Shannon
Randy Lennard Shannon is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Miami from 2007 to 2010. Shannon played football at Miami and then with the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL....
(University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
), and Mike Haywood (Miami University
Miami University
Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...
). Prior to arriving at Eastern Michigan, English had been the defensive coordinator at Michigan in 2006 and 2007, and at Louisville in 2008.