List of Elon Phoenix head football coaches

The Elon Phoenix football program is a college football team that represents Elon University in the Colonial Athletic Association Football Conference (CAAFC),^[1] a part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The team has had 21 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1909.^[2] Since December 2018, Tony Trisciani has served as head coach at Elon.^[3]

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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	Season(s)^{[A 6]}	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DC	CC	NC	Awards
1	Reddy Rowe	1909	5	4	1	0	0.800	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
2	Jack Johnson	1919	3	1	2	0	0.333	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
3	Frank Corboy	1920–1925	51	17	31	3	0.363	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
4	A. R. Van Cleave	1926	10	0	10	0	.000	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–
5	Peahead Walker	1927–1936	88	44	41	3	0.517	17	5	2	0.750	–	–	–	–	4	0	–
6	Horace Hendrickson	1937–1941	44	31	12	1	0.716	22	5	0	0.815	–	–	–	–	2	0	–
7	Hap Perry	1946–1947	20	8	11	1	0.425	3	9	1	0.269	–	–	–	–	0	0	–
8	James Mallory	1948–1952	49	28	18	3	0.602	19	14	2	0.571	–	–	–	–	0	0	–
9	Sid Varney	1953–1959	62	24	36	2	0.403	17	21	2	0.450	–	–	–	–	0	0	–
10	George Tucker	1960–1964	50	29	20	1	0.590	18	12	1	0.597	–	–	–	–	2	0	–
11	Gary Mattocks	1965–1966	20	3	17	0	0.150	1	13	0	0.071	–	–	–	–	0	0	–
12	Shirley Wilson	1967–1976	108	72	34	2	0.676	41	11	2	0.778	2	3	–	–	6	0	–
13	Jerry Tolley	1977–1981	62	49	11	2	0.806	27	7	1	0.786	8	1	–	–	4	2 – 1980 1981	NAIA Division I Coach of the Year (1980)
14	Wright Anderson	1982–1983	20	14	6	0	0.700	9	5	0	0.643	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
15	Macky Carden	1984–1988	51	34	17	0	0.667	23	12	0	0.657	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
16	Leon Hart	1989–1995	74	37	37	0	0.500	23	26	0	0.469	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
17	Al Seagraves	1996–2003	89	40	49	–	0.449	7	11	–	0.389	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
18	Paul Hamilton	2004–2005	20	6	14	–	0.300	2	12	–	0.143	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
19	Pete Lembo	2006–2010	57	35	22	–	0.614	24	14	–	0.632	0	1	–	–	0	0	–
20	Jason Swepson ^[8]	2011–2013	34	10	24	–	0.294	5	19	–	0.208	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
21	Rich Skrosky	2014–2016	34	7	27	–	0.206	4	20	–	0.167	0	0	–	–	0	0	–
22	Curt Cignetti	2017–2018	23	14	9	–	0.609	10	5	–	0.667	0	2	–	–	0	0	–
23	Tony Trisciani	2019–present	75	38	37	–	0.507	30	22	–	0.577	0	1	–	–	0	0	–

v t e Elon Phoenix football
Venues	Burlington Memorial Stadium (?–2000) Rhodes Stadium (2001–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1909 1910–1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942–1945 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 Elon Phoenix head football coaches

Coaches

Notes

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