List of Virginia Tech Hokies head football coaches

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Frank Beamer, 33rd head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies.

The Virginia Tech Hokies college football team represents Virginia Tech in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The program has had 33 head coaches, and 1 interim head coach, since it began play during the 1892 season.[1]

History[]

  • As of the 2017–18 season, the team has played more than 1,250 games in 125 years under 34 different head coaches.
  • Five head coaches have led the Hokies in postseason bowl games: Jimmy Kitts, Jerry Claiborne, Bill Dooley, Frank Beamer and Justin Fuente.
  • Two coaches have won conference championships: Jerry Claiborne, in the Southern Conference in 1963 and Frank Beamer with seven, three in the Big East Conference and four in the ACC.
  • Frank Beamer leads in seasons and games coached and wins, with 280 victories in 427 games in 29 seasons. He was the winningest active coach and longest tenured coach in Division I FBS at the time of his retirement in 2015.[2]
  • A. B. Morrison, Jr. has the highest winning percentage (.857) and Robert McNeish has the lowest winning percentage (.086).
  • Andy Gustafson and Jerry Claiborne have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Key[]

List of head coaches[]

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 6]
# Name Season(s)[A 7] GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DC[A 8] CC NC Awards
1 E. A. Smyth 1892–1893 4 1 3 0 0.250 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
2 Joseph Massie 1894 5 4 1 0 0.800 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
3 Arlie C. Jones 1895–1896 14 9 4 1 0.679 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
4 Charles Firth 1897 7 5 2 0 0.714 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
5 J. Lewis Ingles 1898 5 3 2 0 0.600 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
6 James Morrison 1899 5 4 1 0 0.800 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
7 Eugene Davis 1900 7 3 3 1 0.500 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
8 A. B. Morrison, Jr. 1901 7 6 1 0 0.857 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
9 R. R. Brown 1902 6 3 2 1 0.583 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
10 Charles Augustus Lueder 1903 6 5 1 0 0.833 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
11 John C. O'Connor 1904 8 5 3 0 0.625 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
12 Sally Miles 1905–1906 19 14 3 2 0.737 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
13 C. R. Williams 1907 9 7 2 0 0.778 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
14 R. M. Brown 1908 9 5 4 0 0.556 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
15 Branch Bocock 1909–1910,
1912–1915 		50 34 14 2 0.680 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
16 Lew Riess 1911 9 6 1 2 0.778 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
17 Jack E. Ingersoll 1916 9 7 2 0 0.778 — — — — 0 0 0 — — 0 —
18 Charles A. Bernier 1917–1919 25 18 6 1 0.740 — — — — 0 0 0 — — 0 —
19 Stanley Sutton 1920 10 4 6 0 0.400 — — — — 0 0 0 — — 0 —
20 B. C. Cubbage 1921–1925 48 30 12 6 0.688 13 8 4 0.560 0 0 0 — — 0 —
21 Andy Gustafsondagger 1926–1929 36 22 13 1 0.625 11 9 1 0.548 0 0 0 — — 0 —
22 Orville Neale 1930–1931 18 8 7 3 0.528 3 7 2 0.333 0 0 0 — — 0 —
23 Henry Redd 1932–1940 88 43 37 8 0.534 25 27 7 0.483 0 0 0 — — 0 —
24 Jimmy Kitts 1941,
1946–1947 		29 13 13 3 0.500 11 8 2 0.571 0 1 0 — 1 0 —
25 Sumner D. Tilson 1942 10 7 2 1 0.750 5 1 0 0.833 0 0 0 — — 0 —
26 Herbert McEver 1942, 1945 18 9 8 1 0.528 7 6 0 0.538 0 0 0 — — 0 —
27 Robert McNeish 1948–1950 25 1 21 3 0.100 1 15 3 0.132 0 0 0 — — 0 —
Int Allan Learned 1950 4 0 4 0 .000 0 4 0 .000 0 0 0 — — 0 —
28 Frank Moseley 1951–1960 100 54 42 4 0.560 27 22 2 0.549 0 0 0 — — 0 —
29 Jerry Claibornedagger 1961–1970 102 61 39 2 0.608 12[A 9] 7 0 0.632 0 0 0 — — 0 Neyland Trophy (1994)[6]
30 Charlie Coffey 1971–1973 33 12 20 1 0.379 — — — — 0 0 0 — — 0 —
31 Jimmy Sharpe 1974–1977 44 21 22 1 0.489 — — — — 0 0 0 — — 0 —
32 Bill Dooley 1978–1986 102 64[A 10] 37 1 0.632 —[A 11] — — — 1 2 — — — 0 —
33 Frank Beamer 1987–2015 427 280 143 4 0.655 124 52 0 0.704 10 12 0 5 7 0 AFCA Coach of the Year (1999)
AP Coach of the Year (1999)
Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year (1999)
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1999)
George Munger Award (1999)
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (1999)
Walter Camp Coach of the Year (1999)

Joseph V. Paterno Award (2010)
Big East Coach of the Year (1995, 1996, 1999)
ACC Coach of the Year (2004, 2005)[A 12]

Neyland Trophy (2017)[6]

34 Justin Fuente 2016–2021[8] 74 43 31 0 0.581 28 20 0 0.583 1 3 0 1 0 0 ACC Coach of the Year (2017)
Int J. C. Price 2021 2 1 1 0 0.500 1 1 0 0.500 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 Brent Pry 2022–present 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Notes[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Virginia Tech did not join a conference until 1920, and was not a member of a conference from 1965 to 1990.
  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]
  5. ^ 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.[5]
  6. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2012 college football season.
  7. ^ Virginia Tech did not field teams in 1943 and 1944 due to World War II.
  8. ^ Divisional champions have advanced to the ACC Championship Game since the institution of divisional play beginning in the 2005 season. Since that time, Virginia Tech has competed as a member of the Coastal division.
  9. ^ Virginia Tech left the Southern Conference in 1965 for various financial and structural reasons. Virginia Tech wanted to schedule more large schools but was prevented from doing so by the Southern Conference schedule. In addition, The Hokies hoped to join the Atlantic Coast Conference.
  10. ^ Includes a forfeit by Temple University during the 1986 season. Temple forfeited game because of an ineligible player.
  11. ^ In 1978, Virginia Tech joined the Metro Conference in all sports except football.[7]
  12. ^ The ACC Coach of the Year is voted by Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association (ACSMA).

References[]

General
  • "2012 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  • "Virginia Tech Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  • Lazenby, Roland. Legends: A Pictoral History of Virginia Tech Football. Taylor, Full Court Press (1986) ISBN 978-0-913767-11-5
  • Tandler, Rich. Hokie Games: Virginia Tech Football Game by Game 1945–2006. Game by Game Sports Media (September 15, 2007) ISBN 978-0-9723845-2-0
Specific
  1. ^ Virginia Tech 2012 Football Media Guide, p. 141
  2. ^ "Coach Frank Beamer reflects on his place amongst all-time greats". washingtonpost.com. 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  3. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on November 24, 2009. 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 October 22, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  5. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 22, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  6. ^ a b "General Robert R Neyland Trophy". www.knoxqbclub.com. 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  7. ^ Conference Affiliation History Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed July 10, 2008.
  8. ^ https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2015-11-29/virginia-tech-football-justin-fuente-named-new-head-coach-hokies

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