Dennis Riccio

Last updated
Dennis Riccio
Biographical details
Bornc. 1946
Playing career
Football
1964–1966 Illinois State
Position(s) Linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1979–1982 Augustana (IL) (assistant)
1983–1986 Augustana (IL) (DC)
1987–1991 Frostburg State
1992–1997 St. Lawrence
Wrestling
1979–1987 Augustana (IL)
Head coaching record
Overall42–62 (football)
63–56–3 (wrestling)

Dennis Riccio (born c. 1946) is a former American football and wrestling coach. He served as the head football coach at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland 1987 to 1991 and at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York from 1992 to 1997, compiling a career college football record of 42–62. Before his stint at Frostburg State, Riccio was the defensive coordinator at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois under head coach Bob Reade from 1983 to 1986, during which time the Augustana Vikings won four consecutive NCAA Division III Football Championships. [1] Ricco played college football at Illinois State University as a linebacker from 1964 to 1966. [2] Riccio also wrestled at Illinois State. He moved to Augusta in 1979 to become head wrestling coach and assistant football coach. [3] He served as head wrestling coach there from 1979 to 1987, tallying a record of 63–56–3. [4]

Contents

Head coaching record

Football

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs
Frostburg State Bobcats (NCAA Division III independent)(1987–1991)
1987 Frostburg State2–8
1988 Frostburg State4–6
1989 Frostburg State9–1
1990 Frostburg State9–1
1990 Frostburg State7–3
Frostburg State:31–19
St. Lawrence Saints (NCAA Division III independent)(1992–1997)
1992 St. Lawrence3–6
1993 St. Lawrence2–8
1994 St. Lawrence0–9
1995 St. Lawrence2–6
1996 St. Lawrence2–7
1997 St. Lawrence2–7
St. Lawrence:11–43
Total:42–62

Related Research Articles

Mount Carmel High School (Chicago) Private school in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mount Carmel High School is an all boys, Catholic high school in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, the school has been operated by the Carmelite order of priests and brothers since 1900. Several priests and brothers who teach at the school live in the nearby Saint Cyril Priory, though most of the staff consists of lay teachers.

Don Morton is a former American football player, coach, and software executive. He served as the head football coach at North Dakota State University (1979–1984), the University of Tulsa (1985–1986), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1987–1989), compiling a career college football record of 76–51. Morton's 1983 North Dakota State team won an NCAA Division II Football Championship.

Tom Billups is an American former rugby union rugby player, who played for the USA Eagles as an international and Blackheath Rugby Club, Harlequin F.C., and Pontypridd RFC as a professional. After retiring as a player in 1999, he joined the staff of the United States national team and was the head coach from 2001 to 2006. In addition to coaching the Eagles, Billups managed the U.S. national sevens team program and coached the 2005 U.S. sevens team. In 2015 Billups was inducted into U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame. In 2018 Billups became the 14th recipient of the Craig Sweeney Award which was first award in 1979 in memory of former United States national team member and captain, Craig Sweeney. The Sweeney Award is presented to a former national team player who has contributed significantly to the game while displaying exemplary character on and off the field.

Al Molde is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Sioux Falls College (1971–1972), the University of Minnesota Morris (1973–1979), Central Missouri State University (1980–1982), Eastern Illinois University (1983–1986), and Western Michigan University (1987–1996), compiling a career college football coaching record of 168–104–8 (.614). Molde retired as the athletic director at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota on June 1, 2012, having held the position since 1997. Under his guidance, the Golden Gusties finished in the top 20 in the NCAA Division III NACDA Director's Cup standings several times. In 2013, Molde briefly returned to coaching with the Saarland Hurricanes of the German Football League.

Bob Reade was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois from 1979 to 1994, compiling a record of 146–23–1. His Augustana Vikings won four consecutive NCAA Division III Football Championships from 1983 and 1986 and were runners-up in 1982. Reade's teams went unbeaten for 60 straight games between the start of the 1983 season and the second round of the 1987 NCAA Division III playoffs, when Augustana lost to Dayton, 38–36. This remains the record for the longest unbeaten streak in NCAA Division III football history. Reade's teams won or shared 12 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin championships and he was named conference Coach of the Year nine times. This award is now named in his honor. Reade was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1998.

Omaha Mavericks

The Omaha Mavericks are the sports teams of the University of Nebraska Omaha. They participate in the NCAA's Division I and in The Summit League, except in ice hockey, where they compete in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC).

Rick Rhoades is an American football coach who has worked at the high school, college, and professional levels.

Edward F. Sweeney was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Dickinson College from 1985 to 1992, Colgate University from 1993 to 1995, Frostburg State University from 1996 to 1999, and Mount Ida College from 2000 to 2007, compiling a career college football coaching record of 114–110–4.

Michael A. McGlinchey was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Salisbury University, Central Connecticut State University, and Frostburg State University, compiling a career college football record of 91–49–6.

Lawrence E. Simmons was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Tennessee A&I State College—now known as Tennessee State University—in Nashville, Tennessee in 1939 and again from 1961 to 1962, and at the Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina—now known as South Carolina State University—in Orangeburg, South Carolina from 1951 to 1952, compiling a career college football coach record of 20–18–3. Simmons also had two stints as the head baseball coach at Tennessee A&I, from 1947 to 1950 and 1953 to 1955.

Indiana State Sycamores

The Indiana State Sycamores are the NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic teams of Indiana State University. Since the 1977–78 academic year, Indiana State has been a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The Indiana State football team has competed in the second-tier Division I FCS since the 1982 season, and has been a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) since it was spun off from the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference (Gateway) when the latter league merged into the MVC in 1992. Past conference memberships include the Indiana College Athletic League (1895–1922), the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference (1922–1950), the Indiana Collegiate Conference (1950–1968) and the Midwestern Conference (1970–1972). The women's teams were Gateway members from the league's 1982 founding until its absorption by the MVC. In 1986, a year after the Gateway took on football as its only men's sport, the Sycamores football team joined that conference.

DeLane Fitzgerald is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Frostburg State University, a position he has held since 2014. Fitzgerald served as the head football coach at Southern Virginia University from 2009 to 2013. He played college football at James Madison University from 1997 to 1999.

Rick Bay

Richard M. Bay is a former American football player, wrestler, college athletics administrator, Major League Baseball executive. He was a football player and wrestler at the University of Michigan from 1961 to 1965. He also served as Michigan's head wrestling coach from 1970 to 1974 and as the president of the United States Wrestling Federation from 1976 to 1980. He has also held positions as athletic directors at University of Oregon (1981–1984), Ohio State University (1984–1987), University of Minnesota (1988–1991) and San Diego State University (1995–2003). He was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the New York Yankees for several months in 1988 and president and chief executive officer of the Cleveland Indians in the early 1990s.

Robert J. Cushman is an American football coach and is the head football coach at Occidental College, a position he has held since 2017. Cushman has also served as the head football coach at Eastern Oregon University, Feather River College, Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and the University of Minnesota Morris.

Ben Newcomb is a former American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois from 1969 to 1978, compiling a record of 55–34–1. Newcomb was also the head baseball coach at Eastern Illinois University for one season, in 1966, tallying a mark of 9–17. Newcomb graduated from Augustana College—now known as Augustana University—in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He coached in the public schools in Sioux Falls before moving to Eastern Illinois. Newcomb resigned as head football coach at Augustana following the 1978 season to become director of the school's College Center.

Tom Billeter is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He previously has been the head coach at North Dakota State University, as well as holding assistant coaching roles at a number of NCAA Division I colleges. He led Augustana to the 2016 NCAA Division II national championship and was named the national coach of the year in that season.

Oliver M. Olson was an American football, basketball, track, and cross country coach. He served as the head football coach at Macalester College (1939–1942), Black Hills Teachers College—now known as Black Hills State University (1946–1947), Beloit College (1948–1949), Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois (1950), and West Liberty University (1957–1958). Olson was also the head basketball coach Augustana during the 1950–51 season and at West Liberty, serving two stints (1953–1957) and (1959–1964), leading his team to one West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) regular season championship (1961) and three conference tournament titles.

James Mansfield "Moose" Malmquist was an American football and ice hockey coach. He served as the head football coach at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texasfrom 1959 to 1961, Augustana College—now known as Augustana University—in Sioux Falls, South Dakota from 1962 to 1968, and Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota from 1969 to 1973, compiling a career college football coaching record of 49–81–5. He was also the head ice hockey coach at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota from 1956 to 1959, tallying a mark of 18–21.

Ralph E. Starenko is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Concordia University Nebraska from 1959 to 1963, Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois from 1964 to 1968, and Augustana College—now known as Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota from 1969 to 1976, compiling a career college football coaching record of 84–77–6. He played college football at Valparaiso University, from which he graduated in 1954.

Vic Wallace is a former American football and wrestling coach. He served as the head football coach at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri from 1981 to 1986, St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1987 to 1992, Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee from 1993 to 2007, and Rockford University in Rockford, Illinois from 2011 to 2014, compiling a career college football coaching record of 180–145–1. Wallace was also the head wrestling coach at Carroll College—now known as Carroll University—in Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1974 to 1977 and Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa from 1977 to 1978. He spent the 1980 football season as the offensive coordinator as Texas Tech University.

References

  1. "Riccio quits Frostburg for St. Lawrence post". The Baltimore Sun . March 24, 1992. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
  2. "Illinois State 2012 Football Digital Guide". p. 116. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
  3. "Young's yarns". The Pantagraph . Bloomington, Illinois. April 8, 1979. p. 22. Retrieved December 5, 2016 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. "Augustana Wrestling Record Book – 2006-17" (PDF). Augustana College Athletics. p. 3. Retrieved December 5, 2016.