The McPherson Bulldogs football program is a college football team that represents McPherson College in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, a part of the NAIA. The team has had 30 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1920. [1]
Pete Sterbick began with the program starting the 2012 season [2] and resigned at the end of the 2013 season. [3] On December 5, 2013, McPherson announced that defensive coordinator Steve Fox was promoted to head coach. [4] Fox resigned after one season to take a position as assistant coach at Cisco College where he can be near his family. [5]
In December 2014, McPherson hired Paul Mierkiewicz as the 30th head coach of the program. [6]
General | Overall | Conference | Postseason [A 1] | ||||
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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] |
School records of the program go back to 1920, but other records show a player named Pop Hollinger played football for McPherson in 1917 or earlier. [10] It is possible that records are incorrect, incomplete, or that there was no official coach before the 1920 season.
No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | Awards |
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1 | W. E. Daniel | 1920 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .591 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2 | Dutch Lonborg | 1921–1922 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 0 | .526 | 7 | 9 | 0 | .438 | — | — | — | — |
3 | Floyd Mishler | 1923–1924 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | .611 | 10 | 6 | 2 | .611 | — | — | 1 | — |
4 | George Gardner | 1925–1929 | 39 | 10 | 25 | 4 | .308 | 6 | 22 | 3 | .242 | — | — | — | — |
5 | Melvin J. Binford | 1930–1935 | 53 | 23 | 26 | 4 | .472 | 9 | 13 | 4 | .423 | — | — | — | — |
6 | Lester Selves | 1936 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .611 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .700 | — | — | — | — |
7 | W. P. Astle | 1937–1939 | 27 | 9 | 15 | 3 | .389 | 4 | 10 | 2 | .313 | — | — | — | — |
8 | Thomas C. Hayden | 1940–1942, 1946 | 33 | 8 | 22 | 3 | .288 | 9 | 11 | 2 | .455 | — | — | — | — |
X | No team | 1943–1945 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
9 | Rolla Reiling | 1947 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .143 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — |
10 | F. M. Hardacre | 1948–1949 | 17 | 1 | 16 | 0 | .059 | 0 | 12 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — |
11 | Woody Woodard | 1950–1952 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 1 | .712 | 13 | 5 | 0 | .722 | — | — | 1 | — |
12 | Sid Smith | 1953–1966, 1971–1972 | 145 | 62 | 82 | 1 | .431 | 56 | 71 | 1 | .441 | — | — | — | — |
13 | Dwight McSpadden | 1967–1968 | 18 | 2 | 16 | 0 | .111 | 2 | 16 | 0 | .111 | — | — | — | — |
14 | William Knuckles | 1969–1970 | 17 | 1 | 16 | 0 | .059 | 1 | 15 | 0 | .063 | — | — | — | — |
15 | Don Rominger | 1973–1977 | 47 | 11 | 35 | 1 | .245 | 7 | 16 | 1 | .313 | — | — | — | — |
16 | John Gragg | 1978 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | .556 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .625 | — | — | — | — |
17 | Lou Serrone | 1979 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | .333 | 3 | 5 | 0 | .375 | — | — | — | — |
18 | Lee Dobyns | 1980 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | .222 | 5 | 11 | 0 | .313 | — | — | — | — |
19 | Dave Cripe | 1981–1983 | 27 | 4 | 22 | 1 | .167 | 4 | 22 | 1 | .167 | — | — | — | — |
20 | Steve Phipps | 1984–1985 | 18 | 2 | 16 | 0 | .111 | 2 | 16 | 0 | .111 | — | — | — | — |
21 | Dan Thiessen | 1986–1992 | 65 | 21 | 44 | 0 | .323 | 19 | 43 | 0 | .306 | — | — | — | — |
22 | Bruce Grose | 1993–1997 | 48 | 16 | 32 | 0 | .333 | 13 | 27 | 0 | .325 | — | — | — | — |
23 | Steve Kazor | 1998–1999 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 0 | .600 | 9 | 7 | 0 | .563 | — | — | — | — |
24 | Dan Davis | 2000–2001 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 0 | .211 | 3 | 15 | 0 | .167 | — | — | — | — |
25 | David Cunningham | 2002–2006 | 50 | 24 | 26 | 0 | .480 | 21 | 24 | 0 | .467 | — | — | — | — |
26 | Brian Ward | 2007–2009 | 31 | 17 | 14 | 0 | .548 | 14 | 13 | 0 | .519 | — | 1 | — | — |
27 | Joe Bettasso | 2010–2011 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | .636 | 13 | 5 | 0 | .722 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
28 | Pete Sterbick [11] | 2012–2013 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0 | .450 | 8 | 9 | 0 | .471 | — | – | – | — |
29 | Steve Fox [4] | 2014 | 11 | 4 | 7 | — | .364 | 4 | 5 | — | .444 | — | — | — | — |
30 | Paul Mierkiewicz [6] | 2015–2018 | 41 | 7 | 34 | — | .171 | 6 | 31 | — | .162 | — | — | — | — |
31 | Jeremiah Fiscus | 2019– | 27 | 14 | 13 | — | .519 | 14 | 13 | — | .519 | — | — | — | — |
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