List of Baker Wildcats head football coaches
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The Baker Wildcats football program is a college football team that represents Baker University in the Heart of America Athletic Conference, a part of the NAIA. The team has had 23 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1890.[1] The current coach is Miguel Regalado who took the position for the 2023 season.[2]
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
Statistics correct as of the end of the 2025 college football season.
| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | NCs | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salem Goodale | 1890–1891 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .722 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2 | Frank Crawford | 1892 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .400 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 3 | Charles Thomas | 1893 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .929 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| X | No team | 1894–1908 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 4 | Theodore M. Stuart | 1909 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .875 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 5 | Louis D. Scherer | 1910–1912 | 23 | 8 | 13 | 2 | .391 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 6 | Edward C. Gallagher | 1913–1914 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 7 | Thomas D. Shepherd | 1915 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .625 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 8 | Karl Schlademan | 1916–1918 | 23 | 7 | 14 | 2 | .348 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 9 | Arthur F. Smith | 1919 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 10 | Emil Liston | 1920–1937 | 181 | 97 | 66 | 18 | .586 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 11 | C. W. Ridgeway | 1938–1939 | 18 | 5 | 11 | 2 | .333 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 12 | Emil Liston | 1940–1942 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| X | No team | 1943–1945 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 13 | Karl Spear | 1946–1962 | 152 | 87 | 61 | 4 | .586 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | ||
| 14 | James Irick | 1963–1975 | 117 | 50 | 63 | 4 | .444 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 15 | Joe Girardi | 1976–1979 | 41 | 25 | 15 | 1 | .622 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
| 16 | Charlie Richard† | 1980–1990 | 152 | 123 | 28 | 1 | .813 | — | — | — | 11 | 12 | 8 | — | ||
| 17 | Dan Harris | 1991 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .722 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | ||
| 18 | Charlie Richard† | 1992–1994 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | ||
| 19 | Steve Schottel | 1995 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | .333 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 20 | John Frangoulis | 1996–2003 | 84 | 45 | 39 | 0 | .536 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | ||
| 21 | Mike Grossner | 2004–2018 | 172 | 117 | 55 | 0 | .680 | — | — | — | 6 | 7 | 1 | |||
| 22 | Jason Thoren | 2019–2022 | 42 | 30 | 12 | 0 | .714 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 23 | Miguel Regalado | 2023–present | 33 | 24 | 9 | 0 | .727 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | ||||
See also
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.