List of Army Black Knights head football coaches

The Army Black Knights college football team represents the United States Military Academy (Army) in the American Athletic Conference (AAC), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 36 head coaches and one interim head coach since it began play during the 1890 season. Since December 2013, Jeff Monken has served as head coach at Army.^[1]

Four coaches have led Army in postseason bowl games: Jim Young, Bob Sutton, Rich Ellerson, and Monken. Although only Monken has led the Black Knights to a conference championship, Charles Dudley Daly won two (1914 and 1916) and Earl Blaik won three (1944, 1945, 1946) national championships.

Blaik is the leader in seasons coached, with 18 years as head coach and in games coached (164) and won (121). Geoffrey Keyes has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game at .875. John Mumford has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .000. Of the 36 different head coaches who have led the Black Knights, Henry L. Williams, Daly, John McEwan, Biff Jones, Blaik, and Young have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards^{[A 5]}
No.	Name	Season(s)	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DC	CC	NC	Awards
1	Dennis Michie	1890 1892	6	3	2	1	0.583	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
2	Henry L. Williams^†	1891	7	5	1	1	0.786	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
3	Laurie Bliss	1893	9	4	5	0	0.444	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
4	Harmon S. Graves	1894–1895	14	10	4	0	0.714	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
5	George P. Dyer	1896	6	3	2	1	0.583	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
6	Herman Koehler	1897–1900	33	19	11	3	0.621	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
7	Leon Kromer	1901	8	5	1	2	0.750	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
8	Dennis E. Nolan	1902	8	6	1	1	0.813	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
9	Edward Leonard King	1903	9	6	2	1	0.722	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
10	Robert Boyers	1904–1905	18	11	6	1	0.639	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
11	Ernest Graves Sr.	1906 1912	16	7	8	1	0.469	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
12	Henry Smither ^{[A 6]}	1906–1907	10	7	2	1	0.750	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
13	Harry Nelly	1908–1910	22	15	5	2	0.727	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
14	Joseph Beacham	1911	8	6	1	1	0.813	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
15	Charles Dudley Daly^†	1913–1916 1919–1922	69	58	13	3	0.804	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2 – 1914 1916	–
16	Geoffrey Keyes	1917	8	7	1	0	0.875	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
17	Hugh Mitchell	1918	1	1	0	0	1.000	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
18	John McEwan^†	1923–1925	26	18	5	3	0.750	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
19	Biff Jones^†	1926–1929	40	30	8	2	0.775	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
20	Ralph Sasse	1930–1932	32	25	5	2	0.813	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
21	Garrison H. Davidson	1933–1937	47	35	11	1	0.755	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
22	William H. Wood	1938–1940	28	12	13	3	0.482	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
23	Earl Blaik^†	1941–1958	164	121	33	10	0.768	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3 – 1944 1945 1946	–
24	Dale Hall	1959–1961	29	16	11	2	0.586	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
25	Paul Dietzel	1962–1965	40	21	18	1	0.538	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
26	Tom Cahill	1966–1973	81	40	39	2	0.506	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	AFCA Coach of the Year (1966) FWAA Coach of the Year (1966)
27	Homer Smith	1974–1978	55	21	33	1	0.391	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
28	Lou Saban	1979	11	2	8	1	0.227	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
29	Ed Cavanaugh	1980–1982	33	10	21	2	0.333	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
30	Jim Young^†	1983–1990	91	51	39	1	0.566	–	–	–	–	2	1	0	–	–	0	–
31	Bob Sutton	1991–1999	100	44	55	1	0.445	3	9	0	0.250	0	1	0	–	0	0	–
32	Todd Berry	2000–2003	40	5	35	–	0.125	4	22	–	0.154	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
Int	John Mumford ^{[A 7]}	2003	7	0	7	–	.000	0	4	–	.000	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
33	Bobby Ross	2004–2006	34	9	25	–	0.265	2	6	–	0.250	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
34	Stan Brock	2007–2008	24	6	18	–	0.250	–	–	–	–	0	0	–	–	–	0	–
35	Rich Ellerson	2009–2013	61	20	41	–	0.328	–	–	–	–	1	0	–	–	–	0	–
36	Jeff Monken	2014–present	152	89	63	–	0.586	12	5	–	0.706	6	1	–	–	1	0	–

v t e Army Black Knights football
Venues	The Plain (1890–1923) Michie Stadium (1924–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Air Force (Commander-in-Chief's Trophy) Navy: Army–Navy Game (Commander-in-Chief's Trophy) Notre Dame
Culture & lore	Army Mules Black Death Award "On, Brave Old Army Team" "The Army Goes Rolling Along" 1946 "Game of the Century" West Point Salute Touchdown, Army Code Breakers
People	Head coaches Statistical leaders NFL draftees
Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
National championship seasons in bold

List of Army Black Knights head football coaches

Coaches

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