List of Maine Black Bears head football coaches
The Maine Black Bears college football team represents the University of Maine in the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference (CAAFC), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had 37 head coaches since it began play during the 1892 season. Since December 2021, Jordan Stevens has served as head coach at Maine.[1]
Five coaches have led Maine in postseason playoff or bowl games: Harold Westerman, Tim Murphy, Tom Lichtenberg, Jack Cosgrove, Joe Harasymiak. Eighteen coaches have won conference championships: Edward N. Robinson, Frank McCoy, Edgar Wingard, and Tommy Hughitt each had won one; John Wells Farley, Thomas J. Riley, and James A. Baldwin each won two; Harold Westerman won seven; and Fred Brice won nine as a member of the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association. George E. Allen and William C. Kenyon each won one and Brice won six as a member of the New England Conference. David M. Nelson, Walter Abbott, Ron Rogerson, Murphy, and Lichtenberg each won one, and Westerman won four as a member of the Yankee Conference. Cosgrove won two as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, and Cosgrove and Harasymiak each won one as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association.
Cosgrove is the leader in seasons coached, with 23 years as head coach and in games coached (263) and won (128). Riley has the highest winning percentage of those who have coaced more than one game at 0.781. Chesley Johnston and Wildes Veazie have the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.000. Of the 37 different head coaches who have led the Black Bears, Edward N. Robinson has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Key
[edit]| 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
[edit]| No. | Name[A 6] | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chesley Johnston | 1892 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 2 | Wildes Veazie | 1893 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3 | P. Folsom | 1895 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.200 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4 | Jack Abbott | 1896 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0.333 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0.300 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5 | Harry Orman Robinson | 1897 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.333 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6 | Jim Coombs | 1898 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.200 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7 | W. B. Hopkins | 1899 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0.400 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0.400 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8 | Ernest Burton | 1900 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.500 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9 | John Wells Farley | 1901 1903 |
16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0.750 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 10 | Edward N. Robinson† | 1902 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0.750 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 11 | Emmett O. King | 1904 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0.556 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12 | Frank McCoy | 1905–1908 | 32 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 0.453 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0.542 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 13 | George Schildmiller | 1909 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0.438 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.333 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14 | Edgar Wingard | 1910–1911 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0.750 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 15 | Thomas J. Riley | 1912–1913 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0.781 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 16 | Eddie Cochems | 1914 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0.667 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17 | Tommy Hughitt | 1915–1916 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0.469 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 18 | Thomas A. McCann | 1917 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0.250 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.500 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19 | Donald R. Aldworth | 1918 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.750 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20 | James A. Baldwin | 1919–1920 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0.679 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0.917 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 21 | Fred Brice [A 7] |
1921–1940 | 146 | 79 | 58 | 9 | 0.572 | 63 | 36 | 9 | 0.625 | – | – | – | – | 15 | 0 | – |
| 22 | George E. Allen [A 8] |
1941 1946–1948 |
28 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 0.571 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 0.560 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 23 | William C. Kenyon [A 9] |
1942 1944–1945 |
15 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0.267 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0.300 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 24 | Samuel Sezak | 1943 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25 | David M. Nelson [A 10] |
1949–1950 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0.571 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0.615 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 26 | Harold Westerman [A 11] |
1951–1966 | 124 | 80 | 38 | 7 | 0.668 | 73 | 34 | 7 | 0.671 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | – |
| 27 | Walter Abbott | 1967–1975 | 80 | 27 | 53 | 0 | 0.338 | 15 | 32 | 0 | 0.319 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 28 | Jack Bicknell | 1976–1980 | 54 | 18 | 35 | 1 | 0.343 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 0.180 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29 | Ron Rogerson | 1981–1984 | 43 | 19 | 23 | 1 | 0.453 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0.300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 30 | Buddy Teevens | 1985–1986 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0.591 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0.417 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 31 | Tim Murphy | 1987–1988 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0.652 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0.667 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 32 | Tom Lichtenberg | 1989 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0.750 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0.750 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 33 | Kirk Ferentz | 1990–1992 | 33 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 0.364 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0.333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34 | Jack Cosgrove | 1993–2015 | 263 | 128 | 135 | 0 | 0.487 | 89 | 97 | 0 | 0.478 | 3 | 5 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | – |
| 35 | Joe Harasymiak | 2016–2018 | 35 | 20 | 15 | – | 0.571 | 15 | 9 | – | 0.625 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 36 | Nick Charlton | 2019–2021 | 27 | 14 | 13 | – | 0.519 | 10 | 10 | – | 0.500 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37 | Jordan Stevens | 2022–present | 22 | 4 | 18 | – | 0.182 | 3 | 13 | – | 0.188 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
Notes
[edit]- ^ 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[3]
- ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[4]
- ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
- ^ Maine did not have a head coach during their 1894 season.
- ^ The conference record for Brice in the New England Conference was 27–17–4 and was 36–19–5 in the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
- ^ The conference record for Allen in the New England Conference was 2–1–1, 3–6 in the Yankee Conference, and 8–3–1 in the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
- ^ The conference record for Allen in the New England Conference was 1–6 and 8–2–1 in the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
- ^ The conference record for Nelson in the Yankee Conference was 5–1–1 and 2–3–1 in the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
- ^ The conference record for Westerman in the Yankee Conference was 41–26–5 and 32–8–2 in the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
References
[edit]- ^ Mahoney, Larry (December 7, 2021). "Former Mt. Blue standout Jordan Stevens will return to UMaine as its new football coach". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.