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Charles William Bachman Jr. was an American college football player and coach. Bachman was an Illinois native and an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, where he played college football. He served as the head football coach of Northwestern University, Kansas State Agricultural College, the University of Florida, Michigan State College, and Hillsdale College Bachman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1978.
Carroll Curtis Widdoes was an American college football coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Ohio State University (1944–1945) and Ohio University (1949–1957), compiling a career head coaching record of 58–38–5. Widdoes's 1944 Ohio State team went undefeated and was retroactively named national champion by the National Championship Foundation and the Sagarin Ratings.
Otterbein University is a private university in Westerville, Ohio. It offers 74 majors and 44 minors, as well as eight graduate programs. The university was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and named for United Brethren founder the Rev. Philip William Otterbein. As a result of a division and two mergers involving the church, it has been associated since 1968 with the United Methodist Church. In 2010, due to an increasing number of graduate and undergraduate programs, its name was changed back from Otterbein College to Otterbein University.
James Ray Whipple was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1902 to 1903 and at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan in 1907, compiling a career college football coaching record of 18–3–2.
James L. D. Morrison was an American football player and coach. He served as the first part-time head coach at the University of Notre Dame and Hillsdale College in 1894.
Frank H. Gorton was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Rutgers University from 1906 to 1907, Occidental College from 1908 to 1910, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 1914 to 1916, and Otterbein College—now known as Otterbein University—in 1917, compiling a career college football record of 38–29–6. Gorton was also the head basketball coach at Rutgers from 1906 to 1909, at VMI from 1914 to 1917, and at Otterbein College during the 1917–18 season, amassing a career college basketball mark of 33–31. In addition, he served as the head baseball coach at Rutgers in 1907. Gorton returned to VMI in 1926 to serve as the school's athletic director.
Harry Walter "Buck" Ewing was an American football player, coach of football, basketball and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He was a 1909 graduate of University of Nebraska where he played football. Ewing served as the head football coach at Morningside College (1911), South Dakota State College (1912–1917), Ohio Wesleyan University (1919–1921), Miami University (1922–1923), and Otterbein College, compiling a career college football record of 82–82–10. He was also the head basketball coach at South Dakota State, Ohio Wesleyan (1919–1920), Miami (1922–1924), and Otterbein (1942–1952), tallying a career college basketball mark of 117–111–1.
Joseph Loth is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Western Connecticut State University, a position he has held since 2012.
The Hillsdale Chargers are the athletic teams that represent Hillsdale College, located in Hillsdale, Michigan, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sporting competitions. The Chargers are currently members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference as of 2017. The Chargers had been members of the GLIAC since 1975.
Ernest Jack Petoskey was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Hillsdale College from 1949 to 1950 and Western Michigan University from 1953 to 1956, compiling a career college football record of 19–32–3. A native of Dearborn, Michigan, Petoskey played college football at an end at the University of Michigan from 1940 to 1943. He then served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Irvin C. "Whiz" Wisniewski was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Hillsdale College in 1951, tallying a mark of 2–6. Wisniewski was also the head basketball coach at Hillsdale from 1950 to 1952 and at the University of Delaware from 1954 to 1966, compiling a career college basketball record of 124–179.
Ron Lynch is a former American football coach. He served as the head coach at Hillsdale College from 1978 to 1979 and at Olivet College from 1980 to 1981, compiling a career college football record of 14–24–1. Lynch played college football at Olivet and coached high school football in Michigan and Texas.
Richard B. Lowry is a former American football coach. He served as the head coach at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1979 and at Hillsdale College from 1980 to 1996, compiling a career college football record of 172–75–3.
Andre Holmes is a former American football wide receiver. Originally signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2011, Holmes also played for the Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, and Denver Broncos.
Sam T. Selby was an American football and basketball coach.
The 1946 Ohio Athletic Conference football season was the season of college football played by the 21 member schools of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC), commonly referred to as the "Ohio Conference", as part of the 1946 college football season.
The 1946 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the season of college football played by the six member schools of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) as part of the 1946 college football season.
The 2022 Midwest Athletic Conference football season was the season of college football played by the nine member schools of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (GMAC) as part of the 2022 NCAA Division II football season.
Nathan Shreffler is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Hillsdale College, a position he has held since 2024. He also coached for Glendale High School, Olivet, Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he was a long-time assistant for Hillsdale from 1999 to 2023. He played college football for Hillsdale as a guard and long snapper.
