List of Detroit Titans head football coaches

The Detroit Titans football program was a college football team that represents University of Detroit Mercy as an "independent" program and also in the Missouri Valley Conference, a part of the NCAA University Division. The team has had 18 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1891. The final coach was John Idzik who first took the position for the 1962 season and ended his duties at the end of the final season in 1964.^[1]

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]}

No.	Name	Term	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	PW	PL	CCs	NCs
0	Unknown	1891	1	1	0	0	1.000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1	William S. Robinson	1896–1899	20	13	5	2	.700	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	John C. Mackey	1900–1901	12	6	6	0	.500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	Edward J. Ryan	1902, 1906	13	7	5	1	.577	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	W. Alfred Debo	1903–1904	12	6	6	0	.500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	George A. Kelly	1907–1910	14	7	5	2	.571	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	Royal R. Campbell	1911–1912	15	8	6	1	.567	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	George M. Lawton	1913–1914	15	6	6	3	.500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
8	Harry Costello	1915–1916	13	4	7	2	.385	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
9	James F. Duffy	1917–1924	56	43	12	1	.777	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
10	Germany Schulz^†	1923	9	4	3	2	.556	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
11	Gus Dorais^†	1925–1942	168	113	48	7	.693	—	—	—	—	—	—	1
12	Chuck Baer	1945–1950	57	35	21	1	.623	—	—	—	—	—	1	—
13	Dutch Clark^†	1951–1953	30	13	17	0	.433	—	—	—	—	—	1	—
14	Wally Fromhart	1954–1958	46	19	25	2	.435	—	—	—	—	—	1	—
15	Jim Miller	1959–1961	28	18	10	0	.643	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
16	John Idzik	1962–1964	28	6	21	1	.232	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

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Venues	Mack Park (1912–1915) Navin Field (1917–1921) University of Detroit Stadium (1922–1964)
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	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
National championship seasons in bold

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