List of Wagner Seahawks head football coaches

The Wagner Seahawks college football team represents Wagner College in the Northeast Conference. The Seahawks compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had 12 head coaches since it began play during the 1927 season. Since December 2019, Tom Masella has served as head coach at Wagner.[1]

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason[A 1]
No. Order of coaches[A 2] GC Games coached CW Conference wins PW Postseason wins
DC Division championships OW Overall wins CL Conference losses PL Postseason losses
CC Conference championships OL Overall losses CT Conference ties PT Postseason ties
NC National championships OT Overall ties[A 3] C% Conference winning percentage
† Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage[A 4]

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
No. Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL CCs NCs
1 Randolph Faries 1927 4 1 3 0 0.250 — — — — — — — 0
1 Lucien Kempf 1927 4 1 3 0 0.250 — — — — — — — 0
2
4 		Ray Kirchmeyer 1928–1932
1937–1941
1946 		72 29 39 4 0.431 1 6 1 0.188 — — 0 0
3 Frank Spotts 1933–1936 18 1 14 3 0.139 — — — — — — — 0
5 Jim Lee Howell 1947–1953 57 24 30 3 0.447 — — — — — — — 0
6 Bunny Barbes 1954–1956 24 2 21 1 0.104 — — — — — — — 0
7 Mickey Sullivan 1957–1961 42 26 16 0 0.619 18 6 0 0.750 — — 1 0
8 Robert C. Hicks 1962–1977 147 77 64 6 0.544 42 31 1 0.574 — — 2 0
9 Bill Russo 1978–1980 30 15 15 0 0.500 — — — — 0 1 — 0
10 Walt Hameline 1981–2014 365 224 139 2 0.616 69 62 0 0.527 5 3 3 1
11 Jason Houghtaling 2015–2019 56 16 40 — 0.286 11 20 — 0.355 0 0 0 0
12 Tom Masella 2020–present 35 5 30 — 0.143 4 19 — 0.174 0 0 0 0

Notes

  1. ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[2]
  2. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  3. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[3]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[4]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season.

References

  1. ^ "Wagner College's new head football coach is 'just a kid from Staten Island'". SILive.com. December 9, 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.