List of Chico State Wildcats head football coaches

The Chico State Wildcats college football team represented California State University, Chico. The Wildcats competed in the California Coast Conference from 1922–1928. They moved to the Far West Conference in 1929, staying in the conference until the end of the football program in 1996. It had been renamed the Northern California Athletic Conference in 1983. The team played in the (NCAA) College Division, then NCAA Division II.

The program had 14 identifiable head coaches in its 74 years of competitive existence. Prior to World War I, Chico State played sporadic games against local High Schools.

Coaches

No. Coach Tenure Seasons Win Loss Tie Pct. Bowls
(no coach) 1920 [note 1] 1/2 1 2 0 .333 0
1 Luther Clements 1920 [note 2] 1/2 2 1 0 .667 0
2 George Sperry 1921–1922 2 9 5 1 .633 0
3 Art Acker 1923–1937 15 53 59 8 .475 0
4 Roy Bohler (totals included on line 6) 1938
5 Hubert J. McCormick 1939 1 2 4 2 .375 0
6 Roy Bohler 1940–1949 (no team 1943–1945) 8 24 35 5 .414 0
7 Paul J. Smith 1950–1951 2 2 13 0 .133 0
8 Ernie Busch 1952–1953 2 7 9 1 .441 0
9 Gus Manolis 1954–1957 4 23 12 1 .653 0
10 George Maderos 1958–1967 10 35 59 1 .374 0
11 Pete Riehlman 1968–1973 6 41 20 0 .672 1
12 Dick Trimmer 1974–1983 10 48 52 2 .480 0
13 Mike Bellotti 1984–1988 5 21 25 2 .458 0
14 Gary Hauser 1989–1995 7 24 40 3 .381 0
15 Rob Tomlinson 1996 1 5 5 0 .500 0
Totals 1920–199 74 297 341 26 .467 1

Notes

  1. ^ There was no coach for the first three games of the 1920 season.
  2. ^ Clements only coached the last three games of the 1920 season.

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