List of Washington & Jefferson Presidents head football coaches
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Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
The Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represents Washington & Jefferson College in collegiate level football. The team competes in NCAA Division III and is affiliated with the Presidents' Athletic Conference...
has represented Washington & Jefferson College
Washington & Jefferson College
Washington & Jefferson College, also known as W & J College or W&J, is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States, which is south of Pittsburgh...
in intercollegiate college football
College football
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competition since 1890. The team has competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA) Division III since its formation in 1973. From 1956 to 1972 Washington & Jefferson competed in the NCAA College Division. In 1958, the Presidents, who had previously been independent and not members of any conference, joined the Presidents' Athletic Conference
Presidents' 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....
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As of the end of the 2009 season, the Presidents have played in 1,057 games during their 119 seasons; during that time they have employed 30 head coaches. In 1894, E. Gard Edwards became the first paid head coach. The hiring of professional coaches for the football team was controversial among large portions of the college community, including those who felt it was a poor use of college funds and faculty members who believed that the focus on athletics detracted from the ideal of a scholar-athlete. Professor Edward Linton represented the college at the 1906 founding of the International Athletic Association of the United States, the forerunner of the NCAA, where the first national standards for edibility and amateurism were developed. At that meeting, Linton expressed a desire for the student athlete to be "relieved of the incubus of the professional coach." Three coaches have led Washington & Jefferson College to the NCAA Division III playoffs
NCAA Division III national football championship
The NCAA Division III National Football Championship began in 1973. Before 1973, most of the schools now in Division III competed in the NCAA's former "College Division"....
: John Luckhardt
John Luckhardt
John Luckhardt is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at California University of Pennsylvania in California, Pennsylvania, a position he has held since 2002. Luckhardt coached at Washington & Jefferson College from 1982 to 1998, where he compiled a record...
, John Banaszak, and Mike Sirianni
Mike Sirianni
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. Those three coaches, plus Chuck Ream, coached teams that won the Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship. Greasy Neale's 1921 team played in the 1922 Rose Bowl
1922 Rose Bowl
The 1922 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2, 1922, between Washington & Jefferson College and the University of California, Berkeley...
, the oldest bowl game
Bowl game
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, where they tied the heavily favored California Golden Bears
California Golden Bears football
The California Golden Bears football team is the college football team of the University of California. The team plays its home games at California Memorial Stadium, however the team played at San Francisco's AT&T Park in 2011 while Memorial Stadium was being renovated, the team will return to...
. Neale is the only coach to lead the Presidents to a bowl game appearance.
John Luckhardt is the all-time leader in seasons coached (17), games coached (176), and wins (137). Current coach Mike Sirianni has the highest winning percentage (.854) of any coach since the 1900s. During his two years as head coach, Charles Nelson has the worst winning percentage (.031). Four coaches, Greasy Neale, John Heisman
John Heisman
John William Heisman was an American player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Oberlin College , Buchtel College, now known as the University of Akron , Auburn University , Clemson University , Georgia Tech , the...
, Andrew Kerr
Andrew Kerr
Andrew "Andy" Kerr IV was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Stanford University , Washington & Jefferson College , Colgate University , and Lebanon Valley College , compiling a career college football record...
, and Pete Henry
Pete Henry
Wilbur Francis "Pete" Henry was a professional American football player and coach in the National Football League. He later worked for more than 20 years as athletic director and occasional football coach at Washington & Jefferson College, his alma mater.Henry attended college at Washington &...
have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
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. Two of those coaches, Greasy Neale and Pete Henry have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Pro Football Hall of Fame
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. The current coach is Mike Sirianni, whose first season was in 2003.
Key
| # | A running total of the number of coaches |
| CCs | Conference championships |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move... |
| GC | Games coached |
| OW | Wins |
| OL | Losses |
| OT | Ties |
| O% | Winning percentage Winning percentage In sports, a winning percentage is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. It is defined as wins divided by wins plus losses . Ties count as a ½ loss and a ½ win... |
| PW | Wins |
| PL | Losses |
| PT | Ties |
Coaches
- Statistics correct as of the end of the 2009–10 college football season
# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% PW PL PT CCs Awards 1 4 4 0 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 2 8 6 2 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 3 16 11 3 2 0— 0— 0— 0— — 4 20 18 1 1 0— 0— 0— 0— 0— 5 10 8 2 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 6 12 9 2 1 0— 0— 0— 0— — 7 49 31 14 4 0— 0— 0— 0— — 8 32 25 7 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 9 77 52 20 5 0— 0— 0— 0— — 10 44 36 5 3 0— 0— 0— 0— — 11 20 15 5 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 12 4 2 2 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 13 † 21 16 3 2 0 0 1 0— — 14 † 9 7 1 1 0— 0— 0— 0— — 15 † 27 16 6 5 0— 0— 0— 0— — 16 28 17 8 3 0— 0— 0— 0— — 17 44 20 22 2 0— 0— 0— 0— — 18 32 16 14 2 0— 0— 0— 0— — 19 7 5 1 1 0— 0— 0— 0— — 20 † 13 4 9 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 21 33 17 16 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 22 14 2 12 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 23 14 9 5 0 0— 0— 0— 0— — 24 16 0 15 1 0— 0— 0— 0— — 25 31 5 23 3 0— 0— 0— 0— — 26 87 36 50 1 0— 0— 0— 1 — 27 80 29 50 1 0— 0— 0— 0— — 28 176 137 37 2 13 11 0— 13 AFCA Division III Coach of the Year AFCA Coach of the YearThe AFCA Coach of the Year award is given annually to a college football coach by the American Football Coaches Association . The award has had several different sponors over the years, including Eastman Kodak Corporation, and thus also been named the Kodak Coach of the Year Award.-Football Bowl...
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