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Hillsdale College Football Coaching  Records

Wins Leaders:

1. Frank "Muddy" Waters - 138
2. Dick Lowry - 134
3. Keith Otterbein - 133
4. Dwight Harwood - 69
5.  Jack McAvoy - 24

 COACH  YEARS WINS  LOSSES  TIES PCT.
Student Coaches 1891-95  10  7  1 .583
D.M. Martin 1896, 1898  4  4  1  .500
Nate Duffy 1897  1  1  1  .500
Student Coaches 1899-1903  9  19  0  .321
Harry McRae 1904  0  7  0  .000
Jon A. Dalrymple 1905 5  5  0  .500
William Boone 1906  0  7  0  .000
James Whipple 1907-08 8 6 0  .667
Herbert C. Reed 1909-10  4 7 2 .384
Claude Hunt  1911-12  8  3  1  .708
Charles Firth 1913  2  3  1  .400
Leroy Buchheit  1914-17  10  14  3  .426
Lawrence Mason 1918  1  5  0  .200
Samuel Taylor  1919  3  4  0  .429
William J. Rennie 1920-21 12 4 1 .735
Louis Ost 1922 3 5 0 .375
Howard Jefferson 1923-24 9 4 2 .666
Elroy Guckert 1925-26 9 5 2 .643
Dwight Harwood 1927-45 69 52 14 .563
Davey Nelson 1946-47 14 1 2 .882
Gib Holgate 1948 6 2 1 .722
Jack Petoskey 1949-50 11 7 1 .605
Irv Wisniewski 1951 2 6 0 .250
Henry Fallon 1952 3 5 0 .400
Charlie Bachman 1953 5 3 2 .600
Frank "Muddy" Waters 1954-73 138 47 5 .739
Jack McAvoy 1974-77 24 16 1 .600
Ron Lynch 1978-79 8 14 0 .363
Dick Lowry 1980-96 134 52 2 .705
Dave Dye 1997-2001 21 34 0 .381
Keith Otterbein 2002-2023 133 107 0 .554
Nate Shreffler 2024- 12 11 0 .522