Pete Richardson

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Pete Richardson
Biographical details
Born (1946-10-17) October 17, 1946 (age 78)
Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.
Playing career
1960s Dayton
1969–1971 Buffalo Bills
Position(s) Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1973–1976 Dunbar HS (OH) (assistant)
1977–1978 Dunbar HS (OH)
1979–1982 Winston-Salem State (assistant)
1983–1997 Winston-Salem State (DC)
1988–1992 Winston-Salem State
1993–2009 Southern
Head coaching record
Overall169–76–1 (college)
Bowls4–2
Tournaments0–3 (NCAA D-II playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
5 black college national (1993, 1995, 1997–1998, 2003)
3 CIAA (1988, 1990–1991)
5 SWAC (1993, 1997–1999, 2003)
3 CIAA Southern Division (1988–1990)

Pete Richardson (born October 17, 1946) is an American former professional football defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) and former college head coach.

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Richardson played college football at University of Dayton, and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft. He played for the Bills for three years until a knee injury ended his playing career.

Richardson began his coaching career in the late 1970s at the high school football ranks in Dayton, Ohio, before moving up to NCAA Division II football in 1979 as he joined the coaching staff at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1988, Richardson became the head coach of the Winston-Salem State Rams, succeeding Bill Hayes, who left to become the head football coach at North Carolina A&T State University. [1] Richardson served as head coach from 1988 to 1992, compiling a win–loss record of 41–14–1, winning three Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) championships—in 1988, 1990, 1991—and leading the Rams to two appearances in the NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs, in 1990 and 1991.

Richardson left the Winston-Salem State in 1993 to become head football coach at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During his tenure at Southern, the Jaguars won five Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) championships, including three consecutives titles from 1997 to 1999, as well four black college football national championships, in 1993, 1995, 1997, and 2003. His teams also made six appearances in the Heritage Bowl, a postseason bowl game for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Richardson compiled a win–loss record of 134–62 in 17 seasons as head coach, making him the second winningest coach in program history behind coach Ace Mumford. He is the only coach in the history of the Jaguars football program to have an undefeated record against College Football Hall of Fame coach Eddie Robinson of the rival Grambling State Tigers in the Bayou Classic.

Richardso has collected many accolades allocated to football coaches of HBCUs, such as the Black Coaches Association's Coach of the Year in 1998, five-time SWAC Coach of the Year (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2003), Atlanta's 100% Wrong Club's Coach of the Year (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2003), Washington D.C.'s Pigskin Club's Coach of the Year (1995, 1998 and 2003), the Kodak Region IV Coach of the Year (1995) and the Sheridan Broadcasting Network's Coach of the Year (1997 and 2003).

Head coaching record

College

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs NCAA#TSN°
Winston-Salem State Rams (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association)(1988–1992)
1988 Winston-Salem State10–25–11st (Southern)L NCAA Division II First Round 5
1989 Winston-Salem State8–25–11st (Southern)10
1990 Winston-Salem State7–4–14–1–11st (Southern)L NCAA Division II First Round
1991 Winston-Salem State9–26–01stL NCAA Division II First Round 12
1992 Winston-Salem State7–45–12nd
Winston-Salem State:41–14–125–4–1
Southern Jaguars (Southwestern Athletic Conference)(1993–2009)
1993 Southern 11–17–01stW Heritage 15
1994 Southern 6–55–23rd
1995 Southern 11–16–12ndW Heritage 11
1996 Southern 7–55–2T–2ndL Heritage
1997 Southern 11–18–01stW Heritage 12
1998 Southern 9–38–01stW Heritage 14
1999 Southern 11–24–01st (West)L Heritage 17
2000 Southern 6–54–3T–3rd (West)
2001 Southern 7–45–22nd (West)
2002 Southern 6–65–22nd (West)
2003 Southern 12–16–1T–1st (West)13
2004 Southern 8–46–11st (West)
2005 Southern 4–54–52nd (West)
2006 Southern 5–64–52nd (West)
2007 Southern 8–36–32nd (West)
2008 Southern 6–55–23rd (West)
2009 Southern 0–50–55th (West)
Southern:128–6288–34
Total:169–76–1
      National championship        Conference title        Conference division title or championship game berth

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