List of Connecticut Huskies head football coaches

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Randy Edsall (shown during his tenure with the Maryland Terrapins) is UConn's all-time leader in games coached and coaching wins and, as of 2017 , the current head coach. Maryland Football Coach Randy Edsall.jpg
Randy Edsall (shown during his tenure with the Maryland Terrapins) is UConn's all-time leader in games coached and coaching wins and, as of 2017, the current head coach.

The Connecticut Huskies (UConn) football team has represented the University of Connecticut in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football since the team's founding in 1896. The program has had 30 head coaches, including one interim coach and an early period where the team had no head coach. As of the 2017 season the current coach is Randy Edsall, the head coach from 1999 through the 2010 season who was re-hired following the 2016 season after an absence of six years. [1]

University of Connecticut Public research university in Connecticut

The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land grant, National Sea Grant and National Space Grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881.

National Collegiate Athletic Association Non-profit organization that regulates many American college athletes and programs

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,268 North American institutions and conferences. It also organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and helps more than 480,000 college student-athletes who compete annually in college sports. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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The nickname "Huskies" was adopted following a student poll in The Connecticut Campus in 1934 after the school's name changed from Connecticut Agricultural College to Connecticut State College in 1933; before then, the teams were referred to as the Aggies. [2] [3] Although the school's abbreviated nickname "UConn" and the Canadian Yukon territory—where huskies are commonly used in dogsledding [4] —are homophones, the "Huskies" nickname predates the school's 1939 name change to the University of Connecticut. [3] The first recorded use of "UConn" (as "U-Conn", both separately and with "Huskies") was later in 1939. [5]

Husky dog breed, working dog

Husky is a general name for a sled-type of dog used in northern regions, differentiated from other sled-dog types by their fast pulling style. They are an ever-changing cross-breed of the fastest dogs. The Alaskan Malamute, by contrast, was used for pulling heavier loads. Huskies are used in sled dog racing. In recent years, companies have been marketing tourist treks with dog sledges for adventure travelers in snow regions as well. Huskies are also today kept as pets, and groups work to find new pet homes for retired racing and adventure trekking dogs.

The Daily Campus, founded in 1896, is a student-run newspaper at the University of Connecticut that has a circulation run of 10,000 copies weekdays during the school year and twice during the summer. The Daily Campus has the largest circulation of any college paper in Connecticut and the third-largest in New England, behind The Daily Collegian (UMass) and The Harvard Crimson. Since its creation, the newspaper has undergone several name changes, starting as The Lookout, a monthly, when it published its first issue in May 1896. The name was changed to The Connecticut Campus in 1915, followed by The Connecticut Daily Campus, and then finally just The Daily Campus in 1984. It began publishing five days a week during the academic year in 1952 and became a morning paper in 1955.

Yukon Territory of Canada

Yukon is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three federal territories. It has the smallest population of any province or territory in Canada, with 35,874 people, although it has the largest city in any of the three territories. Whitehorse is the territorial capital and Yukon's only city.

The Huskies have played 1,083 games during the program's 118 seasons through 2016. UConn joined the fledgling Yankee Conference in 1947, which merged with and became the Atlantic 10 football conference in 1997. Seven coaches—J.O. Christian, Robert Ingalls, John Toner, Robert F. Casciola, Larry Naviaux, Walt Nadzak, and Tom Jackson—led Connecticut to conference championships prior to the team's transition from Division I-AA to Division I-A in 2000, [A 1] and one coach—Skip Holtz—led UConn to the Division I-AA playoffs in 1998. Following the transition, Edsall led the Huskies to Big East Conference [A 2] championships in 2007 and 2010.

The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. It once sponsored competition in many sports, but eventually became a football-only league. Although not under the same charter, it is essentially an ancestor of today's Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) football conference.

J. Orlean Christian American football, basketball, baseball coach, college athletics administrator

Joseph Orlean Christian was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut from 1934 to 1949 and as the head baseball coach there from 1936 to 1961. Christian was also the school's athletic director from 1950 to 1966 and filled in as interim head basketball coach during the 1935–36 season. He served as the first commissioner of the Yankee Conference, from 1966 to 1971. Christian died on October 21, 1979 at the age of 81 in a convalescent home in Willimantic, Connecticut. The University of Connecticut's home baseball field, J. O. Christian Field, is named in his honor. Christian's 66 wins as head football coach at Connecticut were the most in program history until Randy Edsall surpassed him in 2010.

Robert Ingalls American football player and coach

Donald Robert Ingalls was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Michigan and was chosen by conference coaches as a second-team player on the Associated Press All-Big Ten Conference team in 1940. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 18th round of the 1942 NFL Draft and played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Packers for one season, in 1942. Ingalls served as an assistant football coach at Nebraska in the 1940s. He served as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut from 1952 to 1963, compiling a record of 49–54–3. He died on April 8, 1970 at Windham Community Hospital in Willimantic, Connecticut.

Edsall is Connecticut's all-time leader in games coached (144), coaching wins (74), bowl game appearances (5), and bowl game wins (3).[ General ] [1] Bob Diaco is the only other UConn head coach to lead the team to a bowl game, which was lost. Dave Warner, who led the then-Aggies to a 3–0 record in his only season coached in 1914, is the all-time leader in winning percentage (1.000); E. S. Mansfield and Leo Hafford, who both lost every game they coached in 1898 and 1911, [A 3] respectively, share the lowest-ever winning percentage (.000). Among coaches that led the team for longer than a single season, T. D. Knowles is the all-time leader in winning percentage (.712), while John F. Donahue has the all-time lowest winning percentage (.125).

Robert Albert Diaco is an American football coach and former player.

The 1914 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1914 college football season. The Aggies were led by first year head coach Dave Warner, and completed the season with a record of 3–0.

Leo Edgar Hafford was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the major leagues. He attended Tufts University. He also attended Bowdoin College, and went on to coach football at the University of Connecticut in 1911. He served as head coach only briefly, however, as he died from typhoid fever three weeks after accepting the position. He ended up only coaching one game, but was credited as head coach for the whole season.

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason [A 4]
No. Order of coaches [A 5] GC Games coachedCW Conference winsPW Postseason wins
DC Division championshipsOW Overall winsCL Conference lossesPL Postseason losses
CC Conference championshipsOL Overall lossesCT Conference tiesPT Postseason ties
NC National championshipsOT Overall ties [A 6] C% Conference winning percentage
Dagger-14-plain.png Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage [A 7]

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, [A 8] postseason records, division [A 9] and conference [A 10] championships, and selected awards [A 11] [A 12]
  Overall Conference Postseason 
No. Name Season(s) GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DC CC Awards
— No coach 1896–97 15 10 5 0 .667— — — — — — — — — —
1 Mansfield, E. S.E. S. Mansfield 1898 3 0 3 0 .000— — — — — — — — — —
2 Knowles, T. D. T. D. Knowles 1899–1901 26 18 7 1 .712— — — — — — — — — —
3 Smith, E. O. E. O. Smith 1902–05 28 14 13 1 .518— — — — — — — — — —
4 Lamson, George H.George H. Lamson 1906–07 13 4 9 0 .308— — — — — — — — — —
5 Madden, W. F.W. F. Madden 1908 8 4 3 1 .563— — — — — — — — — —
6 McLean, S. F. G.S. F. G. McLean 1909 8 3 5 0 .375— — — — — — — — — —
7 Claffey, M. F.M. F. Claffey 1910 7 1 5 1 .214— — — — — — — — — —
8 Hafford, Leo Leo Hafford [A 3] 1911 5 0 5 0 .000— — — — — — — — — —
9 Sharadin, A. J.A. J. Sharadin 1912 6 3 3 0 .500— — — — — — — — — —
10 Brady, P. T.P. T. Brady 1913 8 5 3 0 .625— — — — — — — — — —
11 Warner, DaveDave Warner 1914 3 3 0 0 1.000— — — — — — — — — —
12 Donahue, John F.John F. Donahue 1915–16 16 2 14 0 .125— — — — — — — — — —
X No football played 1917–18 [A 13] — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
13 Guyer, Roy J. Roy J. Guyer 1919 8 2 6 0 .250— — — — 0 0 0 — — —
14 Swartz, RossRoss Swartz 1920 8 1 6 1 .188— — — — 0 0 0 — — —
15 Tasker, J. Wilder J. Wilder Tasker 1921–22 17 5 8 4 .412— — — — 0 0 0 — — —
16 Dole, Sumner A. Sumner A. Dole 1923–33 89 36 39 14 .483— — — — 0 0 0 — — —
17 Christian, J. O. J. O. Christian 1934–49 [A 14] 121 66 51 4 .562 5 3 0 .625 0 0 0 — 1 —
18 Valpey, Arthur L. Arthur L. Valpey 1950–51 16 7 9 0 .438 2 4 0 .333 0 0 0 — 0 —
19 Ingalls, D. Robert D. Robert Ingalls 1952–63 106 49 54 3 .476 29 16 3 .635 0 0 0 — 6 —
20 Forzano, Richard E. Richard E. Forzano 1964–65 18 7 10 1 .417 4 3 1 .563 0 0 0 — 0 —
21 Toner, John L. John L. Toner 1966–70 47 20 24 3 .457 17 6 2 .720 0 0 0 — 2 Husky of Honor (as athletic director) [14]
22 Casciola, Robert F. Robert F. Casciola 1971–72 18 9 8 1 .528 8 2 1 .773 0 0 0 — 1 —
23 Naviaux, Larry L. Larry L. Naviaux 1973–76 43 18 24 1 .430 13 8 1 .614 0 0 0 — 1 —
24 Nadzak, Walt Walt Nadzak 1977–82 65 24 39 2 .385 14 15 1 .483 0 0 0 — 1 —
25 Jackson, Tom Tom Jackson 1983–93 119 62 57 0 .521 42 35 0 .545 0 0 0 0 2 Yankee Conference Coach of the Year (1986) [15]

UPI New England Coach of the Year (1986) [15]

26 Holtz, Skip Skip Holtz 1994–98 57 34 23 0 .596 22 18 0 .550 1 1 0 1 0 —
27 Edsall, Randy Randy Edsall 1999–2010,
2017–present 		144 74 70 — .514 25 31 — .446 3 2 — 0 2 Big East Coach of the Year (2010) [16]
28 Pasqualoni, Paul Paul Pasqualoni 2011–13 [A 15] 28 10 18 — .357 5 9 — .357 0 0 — — 0 —
Int.Weist, T. J. T. J. Weist 2013 [A 15] 8 3 5 — .375 3 5 — .375 0 0 — — 0 —
29 Diaco, Bob Bob Diaco 2014–16 37 11 26 — .297 6 18 — .250 0 1 — 0 0 —

Notes

  1. ↑ In August 2006 the NCAA changed the name of Division I-A to Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Division I-AA to Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). [6] In this article the old names are used to refer to events that occurred prior to August 2006.
  2. ↑ The American Athletic Conference operated as the Big East Conference from 1979 through 2013. [7] See 2010–13 Big East Conference realignment for more information. This article uses the name "Big East" to refer to the conference for the years 2013 and earlier.
  3. 1 2 According to one source, Hafford died on October 1, 1911, one day after Connecticut's first game of the 1911 season. [8] The official university record book credits him with four losses in games played after that date, however.[ General ]
  4. ↑ 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. [9]
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since. [10]
  7. ↑ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss. [11]
  8. ↑ The University of Connecticut does not record conference records until 1947, the first season of the Yankee Conference. UConn was not a member of a conference for football from 2000–03.[ General ]
  9. ↑ Connecticut participated in divisional play for seven seasons in the Division I-AA era, between the expansion of the Yankee Conference to twelve teams and two divisions in 1993 [12] and the beginning of UConn's transition to Division I-A in 2000.[ General ] The American Athletic Conference began divisional play in 2015 following the addition of the Navy Midshipmen, which brought the total number of teams in the conference to twelve. [13]
  10. ↑ Conference championships include both sole and shared championships for all years between 1947–99 and 2004–14, where UConn played in conferences with no championship game.[ General ]
  11. ↑ Selected awards include only those associated with the coach's time at the University of Connecticut.
  12. ↑ Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2016 college football season.
  13. ↑ No football games were played in 1917 nor 1918 due to World War I.[ General ]
  14. ↑ No football games were played in 1943 due to World War II.[ General ]
  15. 1 2 Paul Pasqualoni was fired following the first four games of the 2013 season, which constituted the entire non-conference portion of that year's schedule. Interim coach T. J. Weist took over for the remaining eight games of the season, which constituted the entire conference portion of the schedule.[ General ] [17]

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