Dean Bulldogs football
College football team in Massachusetts
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The Dean Bulldogs football team represents Dean College in college football at the NCAA Division III level. The Bulldogs are members of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC), having joined the conference in 2025. Dean competed in the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) from 2017 to 2024.[3] The Bulldogs play their home games at Dale Lippert Field in Franklin, Massachusetts.[4] Luke Bakanowsky is the head coach of the program. He took over from Andrae Murphy after the 2024 season.[5]
First season1957
Athletic directorEric Desmond Lee (Vice President of Athletics and Recreation)[1]
Head coachLuke Bakanowsky
1st season, 0–10 (.000)
1st season, 0–10 (.000)
LocationFranklin, Massachusetts
| Dean Bulldogs football | |
|---|---|
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| First season | 1957 |
| Athletic director | Eric Desmond Lee (Vice President of Athletics and Recreation)[1] |
| Head coach | Luke Bakanowsky 1st season, 0–10 (.000) |
| Location | Franklin, Massachusetts |
| Stadium | Dale Lippert Field (capacity: 1,500) |
| NCAA division | Division III |
| Conference | MASCAC |
| Colors | Cardinal, white, and black[2] |
| All-time record | 310–240–5 (.563) |
| Bowl record | 1–1 (.500) |
| Conference championships | |
| 5 | |
| Mascot | Bulldog |
| Website | deanbulldogs.com |
The team was formally known as the Red Demons until 1994 when the school went from Dean Junior College to Dean College.[6]
Conference affiliations
- Unknown (1957–1997)
- Northeast Football Conference (1998–2015)
- Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (2017–2024)
- Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (2025–present)[7]
List of head coaches
Key
| 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
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sal Lombardo[11][12] | 1957–1963 | 41 | 20 | 19 | 2 | 0.512 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | Bruce Marshall[13] | 1964–1965 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0.375 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | Jim Wolfe[13] | 1966–1970 | 38 | 17 | 21 | 0 | 0.447 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | Thomas H. Bell[13] | 1971 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0.571 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5 | Tom Schoen[14] | 1972–1973 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0.536 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6 | George Colfer[13] | 1974 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | Gary Scutt[15] | 1975–1977 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 0.630 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8 | Dean Peterson[13] | 1978–1979 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0.875 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 9 | James Attaway[16] | 1980–1989 | 78 | 50 | 27 | 1 | 0.647 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10 | Bill McKeown[17] | 1990, 1992 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0.611 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 11 | Rich Flanders[18] | 1991 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 12 | Tom Rezzuti[19] | 1993 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0.778 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 12 | Jim Foster[20] | 1994–1995 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0.800 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 13 | Roger Pollard[21] | 1996–1997 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0.438 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 14 | Jack Charney[22][23] | 1998–2003 | 53 | 20 | 33 | 0 | 0.377 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 15 | Todd Vasey[24] | 2004–2015 | 120 | 82 | 38 | 0 | 0.683 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 16 | Steve Tirrell[25] | 2016–2021 | 50 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 0.400 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 17 | Andrae Murphy[26] | 2022–2024 | 28 | 3 | 25 | 0 | 0.107 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 18 | Luke Bakanowsky[27] | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Year-by-year results
| National champions | Conference champions | Bowl game berth | Playoff berth |
| Season | Year | Head Coach |
Association | Division | Conference | Record | Postseason | Final ranking | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Conference | |||||||||||||
| Win | Loss | Tie | Finish | Win | Loss | Tie | ||||||||
| Dean Bulldogs | ||||||||||||||
| 1957 | 1957 | Sal Lombardo | NJCAA | — | — | NR | ||||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 2 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| 1959 | 1959 | NR | ||||||||||||
| 1960 | 1960 | 6 | 2 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| 1961 | 1961 | 0 | 7 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1962 | 1962 | 3 | 5 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1963 | 1963 | 5 | 3 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1964 | 1964 | Bruce Marshall | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1965 | 1965 | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1966 | 1966 | Jim Wolfe | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1967 | 1967 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 6 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1969 | 1969 | 5 | 3 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1970 | 1970 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1971 | 1971 | Thomas Bell | 4 | 3 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1972 | 1972 | Tom Schoen | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1973 | 1973 | 2 | 4 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| 1974 | 1974 | George Colfer | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1975 | 1975 | Gary Scutt | 4 | 2 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1976 | 1976 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| 1977 | 1977 | 5 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1978 | 1978 | Dean Peterson | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1979 | 1979 | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1980 | 1980 | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1981 | 1981 | James Attaway | 7 | 2 | 0 | – | 2 | |||||||
| 1982 | 1982 | 5 | 3 | 0 | – | 10 | ||||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 5 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1984 | 1984 | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1985 | 1985 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | |||||||||
| 1986 | 1986 | 5 | 4 | 0 | – | 6 | ||||||||
| 1987 | 1987 | 3 | 5 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1988 | 1988 | 7 | 3 | 0 | – | Bowl game berth | ||||||||
| 1989 | 1989 | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1990 | 1990 | Bill McKeown | 7 | 2 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1991 | 1991 | Rich Flanders | 10 | 0 | 0 | – | Bowl game berth | |||||||
| 1992 | 1992 | Bill McKeown | 4 | 5 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1993 | 1993 | Tom Rezzuti | 7 | 2 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1994 | 1994 | Jim Foster | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1995 | 1995 | 6 | 1 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 1996 | 1996 | Roger Pollard | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1997 | 1997 | NEFC | 3 | 5 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1998 | 1998 | Jack Charney | 2 | 7 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 1999 | 1999 | 7 | 2 | 0 | – | Conference champions | ||||||||
| 2000 | 2000 | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2001 | 2001 | 2 | 6 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2002 | 2002 | 3 | 7 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2003 | 2003 | 2 | 7 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2004 | 2004 | Todd Vasey | 2 | 8 | 0 | – | ||||||||
| 2005 | 2005 | 6 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2006 | 2006 | 7 | 3 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2007 | 2007 | 9 | 1 | 0 | – | Conference champions | ||||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 10 | 1 | 0 | – | Conference champions | ||||||||
| 2009 | 2009 | 9 | 2 | 0 | – | Conference champions | ||||||||
| 2010 | 2010 | 6 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2011 | 2011 | 8 | 1 | 0 | – | Bowl game berth | ||||||||
| 2012 | 2012 | 7 | 3 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2013 | 2013 | 6 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2014 | 2014 | 6 | 4 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2015 | 2015 | 6 | 3 | 0 | – | |||||||||
| 2016 | 2016 | Steve Tirell | Club team | 5 | 5 | 0 | – | |||||||
| 2017 | 2017 | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 4 | 6 | 0 | – | 2 | 5 | 0 | — | — | |
| 2018 | 2018 | 5 | 5 | 0 | – | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | — | ||||
| 2019 | 2019 | 4 | 6 | 0 | – | 4 | 1 | 0 | Conference champions | — | ||||
| Season canceled due to COVID-19 | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 2021 | Steve Tirell | NCAA | Division III | ECFC | 2 | 8 | 0 | – | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2022 | Andrae Murphy | 1 | 9 | 0 | – | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | |||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2 | 8 | 0 | – | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | ||||
| 2024 | 2024 | 0 | 8 | 0 | – | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | ||||
| 2025 | 2025 | Luke Bakanowsky | NCAA | Division III | MASCAC | 0 | 10 | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | 0 | — | — |
Notes
- 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.