List of Ithaca Bombers head football coaches
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The Ithaca Bombers football program is a college football team that represents Ithaca College as a member of the Empire 8 at the NCAA Division III lebel The team has had 10 full-time head coaches since the inception of the program in 1930. The current coach is Michael Toerper who took the position for the 2022 season.[1]
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 2024 college football season.
| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | NCs | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonard Schreck | 1930 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .300 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2 | Bucky Freeman | 1931–1942, 1946 | 74 | 36 | 32 | 6 | .527 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.[5] | |
| Int. | Ben Light | 1935 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .750 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| X | No team | 1943–1945 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 3 | Pete Hatch | 1946–1950 | 31 | 13 | 18 | 0 | .419 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 4 | Joseph Hamilton | 1951–1955 | 32 | 7 | 22 | 3 | .266 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 5 | Art Orloske | 1956–1957 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 0 | .231 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 6 | Richard S. Lyon | 1958–1966 | 69 | 49 | 20 | 0 | .710 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 7 | Jim Butterfield† | 1967–1993 | 278 | 206 | 71 | 1 | .743 | 46 | 7 | 1 | .861 | 21 | 8 | 11 | 3 | |
| 8 | Mike Welch | 1994–2016 | 247 | 169 | 78 | 0 | .684 | 62 | 31 | 0 | .667 | 7 | 10 | 9 | — | |
| 9 | Dan Swanstrom | 2017–2021 | 43 | 32 | 11 | 0 | .744 | 17 | 4 | 0 | .810 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | |
| 10 | Michael Toerper | 2022–2025 | 45 | 35 | 10 | 0 | .778 | 23 | 2 | 0 | .920 | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | |
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.