List of Ottawa Braves head football coaches

The Ottawa Braves program is a college football team that represents Ottawa University in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, a part of the NAIA. The team has had 28 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1901. The current coach is Kent Kessinger who first took the position for the 2004 season.[1]

Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason[A 1]
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]

Coaches

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No. Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL CCs Awards
1 J. Nort Atkinson 1901–1902 19 12 5 2 .684
X No team 1903 - - - - - - - - -— - - - -
2 Alpha Brummage 1904–1907 31 14 16 1 .468
3 Norman G. Wann 1908–1909 15 9 5 1 .633
4 Oscar Dahlene 1910 6 2 3 1 .417
5 Red Baughman 1911 7 1 3 3 .357
6 Floyd Daniel Hargiss 1912 7 0 7 0 .000
7 Porter Craig 1913–1914 13 5 6 2 .462
8 Arthur Schabinger 1915–1917
1919
30 9 17 4 .367
X No team 1918 - - - - - - - - -— - - - -
9 Robert E. Brannan 1920–1922 23 2 20 1 .109
10 Edwin Elbel 1923–1927 42 14 21 7 .417
11 Archie W. Butcher 1928–1929 16 2 12 2 .188
12 John S. Davis 1930 9 1 8 0 .111
13 Charles Erickson 1931–1935 40 18 21 1 .463
14 Dick Godlove 1936–1942 56 37 13 6 .714
X No team - - - - - - - - -— - - - -
15 Wally A. Forsberg 1946–1948 28 20 6 2 .750
16 Richard Peters 1949–1952
1957–1971
174 129 42 3 .750
17 Paul J. Andree 1953–1955 27 12 14 1 .463
18 Grover Nutt 1956 9 0 9 0 .000
19 Ben Moor 1972–1975 37 18 19 0 .486
20 Don McLeary 1976–1977 18 10 8 0 .556
21 John Salavantis 1978 10 7 3 0 .700
22 Nyle Salmans 1979–1983 52 24 27 1 .471
23 Glen Percy 1984–1988 50 21 29 0 .420
24 Dave Dallas 1989–1996 78 38 39 1 .494
25 Chris Creighton 1997–2000 41 32 9 0 .780
26 Ronnie Jones 2001 10 6 4 0 .600
27 Patrick Ross 2002–2003 2 14 7 0 .667 14 4 0 .778 1 1
28 Kent Kessinger 2004–2021 172 98 74 0 .570 90 56 0 .616 2 4 3
29 Nick Davis 2022–present 20 8 12 0 .400 8 12 0 .400 - - 1

See also

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Notes

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  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]

References

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  1. ^ "2012 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Ottawa Braves. p. 7. Retrieved February 26, 2013.[permanent dead link]
  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.
  3. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.