List of Geneva Golden Tornadoes head football coaches

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Head coach Robert Park simultaneously served as head football coach, professor, and local minister. Rev. Robert Park in 1951.jpg
Head coach Robert Park simultaneously served as head football coach, professor, and local minister.

The Geneva Golden Tornadoes football program is a college football team that represents Geneva College in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, a part of the NCAA Division III. The team has had 29 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1890.

Contents

Among the coaches in the history at Geneva College include College Football Hall of Fame members Bo McMillin and Cal Hubbard.

The current coach is Geno DeMarco who first took the position for the 1993 season. He leads the list with the most games coached and the most total wins. Samuel G. Craig has the highest winning percentage of the coaches at .859, accumulated from 1900 through the 1903 seasons and a total of 32 games. Arthur McKean managed the most tie games with 7. [1]

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
GeneralOverallConferencePostseason [A 1]
No.Order of coaches [A 2] GCGames coachedCWConference winsPWPostseason wins
DCDivision championshipsOWOverall winsCLConference lossesPLPostseason losses
CCConference championshipsOLOverall lossesCTConference tiesPTPostseason ties
NCNational championshipsOTOverall ties [A 3] C%Conference winning percentage
†Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O%Overall winning percentage [A 4]

Coaches

No.NameTermGCOWOLOTO%CWCLCTC%PWPLCCsAwards
1 William McCracken 1890–18963617181.486
2 Ross Fiscus 1897–189917692.412
3 Samuel G. Craig 1900–1903322633.859
4 Smith Alford 19047142.286
5Archibald Leech19059450.444
6 Arthur McKean 1907–19114110247.329
7Graydon Long19127340.429
8 C. Brainerd Metheny 1913–19163216142.531
9 Philip Henry Bridenbaugh 1917–19214023125.638
10 Robert Park 192210460.400
11 Tom Davies 19239621.722
12 Jack Sack 19249342.444
13 Bo McMillin †1925–1927292261.776
14 Mack Flenniken 1928–1929197111.395
15 Howard Harpster 1930–1932302262.767
16 Jimmy Robertson 19339630.667
17 Dwight V. Beede 1934–1936261493.596
18 Edgar P. Weltner 1937–19403716192.459
19 Alured C. Ransom 1941–19483420122.618
20 Cal Hubbard †19429630.667
21 Walter J. West 1949–19523418142.559
22 Byron E. Morgan 1953–19628746356.563
23Donald Lederick1963–1966325261.172
24Joe Banks1967–1968161141.094
25Dan Frasier1969–1971269161.365
26 Max Holm 1972–1973181260.667
27 Dick Lasse 1974–1975181170.056
28 Gene Sullivan 1976–199216076822.481
29 Geno DeMarco 1993–present3151621530.514

Details

The following are details on coaches that do not have articles. For coaches with articles on Wikipedia, see links in the table above.

Archibald Leech

Dr. Archibald W. Leech played football, basketball, and baseball at Geneva College. He was known for his athletic skills and was named "one of the most noted athletes ever graduated" from the school. [5] The school suffered one of its largest defeats to Penn State [6] by a score of 73 to 0. [7] This game was also Penn State's ninth largest all-time margin of victory and total points scored. [8]

Leech only coached football for one year at Geneva, but stayed on as a full professor at the college. [9] Leech gained prominence as an educator and businessman in the area of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, where he also served as postmaster. [5]

Graydon Long

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Graydon Long, 1906

Graydon Long (March 11, 1889-September 1966) was a professional football officials in the early days of the sport, officiating games of teams that would later make up the National Football League.

Sports history

Playing history

Long played high school football at West high School in Rochester, New York, as a member of the class of 1908. [10] The 1906 team concluded an undefeated season and the 1907 team produced solid results as well. [11]

Officiating

After coaching in the college ranks, Long worked as an official for professional football [12] at the time, primarily working games for the future NFL team Rochester Jeffersons. [13]

Joe Banks

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Coach Joe Banks

Coach Joseph "Joe" Banks (September 8, 1919 – June 19, 2007) was a long-time college athletics figure in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He worked as a head coach for American football and track & field.

Coaching

Geneva College

Banks was the 24th head coach at Geneva [14] for two seasons, from 1967 [15] until 1968. His one victory came in the last game of the 1967 season against Bridgewater College by a score of 30 to 13. [16]

Ohio Northern

Prior to taking the position at Geneva, he was the head track coach and assistant football coach at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, from 1960 until 1967. [17] where he completed a "turnaround season" in 1962. [18] After coaching at Geneva and a brief stint at a high school, he would return to Ohio Northern in 1971 for the remainder of his career, where he retired in 2002 as an admissions counselor. [14] He has been credited with recruiting more students than any other person to Ohio Northern. [19]

While at Ohio Northern, Banks would regularly hold training sessions for high school athletic administrators on how to run and promote track and field meets as well as how to coach individual events. [20]

Ohio Northern honored his contribution to the university [21] by naming their home track meet the "Joe Banks Invitational." [22]

Military service

Banks served in the United States military during World War II as a Sergeant with the Third Army's 965th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance company in the Rhineland (Battle of the Bulge) and the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in the Philippines. [23]

Personal life

Banks earned a Bachelor of Science in education and later a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Northern University. [24] He later completed a Master of Education from Kent State University. He graduated from high school at New Philadelphia in 1937 where he was coached at track & field by Woody Hayes. [25]

Dan Frasier

Daniel M. Frasier was named NAIA District 18 Coach of the Year in 1971. [26] Frasier engineered a turnaround of the program, when the football team went to what was considered a "laughing stock of the district" to an 8-0 start in 1971 (some records show a 7-0 start and losing the last two games [27] ). [28]

Before being head football coach at Geneva, he was assistant football coach at Geneva under Donald Lederick while simultaneously acting as the head baseball coach. He also played minor league baseball for the Houston Astros farm team. [29]

Upon retirement from college coaching, he entered the private sector and took a career in banking. [26]

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]

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References

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  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.
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  5. 1 2 Cambria County, PA Genealogy "History of Cambria County, V2
  6. ↑ College Football Data Warehouse Archived 2011-05-25 at the Wayback Machine Penn State 1905 Season Results
  7. ↑ State Collegian "State 73-Geneva 0" November 19, 1905
  8. ↑ College Football Data Warehouse Archived May 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Penn State: 50+ Points Scored In A Game
  9. ↑ New Castle News May 31, 1905
  10. ↑ West High School Football Team 1906 Football Program
  11. ↑ West High School Football Team 1907 Football Program
  12. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Pro Football In Western New York: 1900-1949 [ permanent dead link ] "1913 Game Summaries"
  13. ↑ Rochester Jeffersons: History Archived October 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine 1913 Season Results
  14. 1 2 Kenton Times Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine "Joseph Ada Banks"
  15. ↑ The Evening Standard (Newspaper) "Sports" March 16, 1967
  16. ↑ Geneva College coaching records
  17. ↑ Lima News, The (Newspaper) - March 19, 1967, Lima, Ohio
  18. ↑ Ohio Northern University Yearbook 1962 Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine "Track & Field"
  19. ↑ Ohio Northern Magazine and Alumni Journal Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine "Joseph Banks BA ’41 and ’46, H of F ’74" Fall 2007
  20. ↑ Toledo Blade "Early Jump Into Track Season" by Chet Sullwold, March 30, 1965
  21. ↑ Ohio Northern University Athletics [ permanent dead link ]
  22. ↑ Ohio Athletic Conference "OAC Weekly Outdoor Track & Field Notes" April 23, 2007
  23. ↑ The Alliance Review Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine "Joseph Banks" June 21, 2007
  24. ↑ Ohio Northern University Yearbook 1941 Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine "Senior Class"
  25. ↑ Ada Herald Joseph Banks (Obituary), June 20, 2007
  26. 1 2 "Dan Fraiser-Coach of the Year". Beaver County Times May 23, 1972
  27. ↑ College Football Data Warehouse Archived 2012-10-14 at the Wayback Machine Geneva College Football 1971
  28. ↑ Parascenzo, Marino (November 3, 1971). "The Geneva Story: A Winning Fairy Tale". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. p. 27. Retrieved September 22, 2021– via Google News.
  29. ↑ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Geneva Adds Dan Frasier" July 9, 1966
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