List of Rhode Island Rams head football coaches

The Rhode Island Rams college football team represents the University of Rhode Island in the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference (CAAFC), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had 20 head coaches since it began play during the 1895 season. Since December 2013, Jim Fleming has served as head coach at Rhode Island.^[1]

Three coaches have led Rhode Island in postseason playoff or bowl games: Hal Kopp, Bob Griffin, and Fleming. Seven coaches have won conference championships: Frank Keaney won three and Bill Beck and Paul Cieurzo each won one as a member of the New England Conference; Kopp wone three, Herb Maack wone one, and Griffin won three as a member of the Yankee Conference; Fleming won one as a member of the CAAFC.

Keaney is the leader in seasons coached, with 21 years as head coach. Griffin is the leader in games coached (187) and won (79). Kopp has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game at 0.707. Fred Murray has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.063.

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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)	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DC	CC	Awards
1	Marshall Tyler	1898–1901 1903–1908	57	25	22	10	0.526	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2	George Cobb	1909–1911 1913–1914	38	17	16	5	0.513	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
3	Robert Bingham	1912	9	6	3	–	0.667	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
4	James A. Baldwin	1915–1917	24	8	13	3	0.396	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
5	Fred Murray	1919	8	0	7	1	0.063	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
6	Frank Keaney	1920–1940	168	70	86	12	0.452	16	26	4	0.391	–	–	–	–	3	–
7	Bill Beck	1941 1946–1949	36	12	22	2	0.361	5	12	0	0.294	–	–	–	–	1	–
8	Paul Cieurzo	1942 1945	9	5	4	0	0.556	1	2	0	0.333	–	–	–	–	1	–
9	Hal Kopp	1950 1952–1955	41	28	11	2	0.707	15	6	0	0.714	0	1	0	–	3	–
10	Ed Doherty	1951	8	3	5	0	0.375	1	3	0	0.250	0	0	0	–	0	–
11	Herb Maack	1956–1960	41	17	22	2	0.439	8	11	2	0.429	0	0	0	–	1	–
12	John Chironna	1961–1962	18	4	11	3	0.306	2	7	0	0.222	0	0	0	–	0	–
13	Jack Zilly	1963–1969	64	21	41	2	0.344	10	23	2	0.314	0	0	0	–	0	–
14	Jack Gregory	1970–1975	57	22	33	2	0.404	13	18	1	0.422	0	0	0	–	0	–
15	Bob Griffin	1976–1992	187	79	107	1	0.425	37	67	0	0.356	2	3	0	–	3	–
16	Floyd Keith	1993–1999	76	23	53	0	0.303	17	39	0	0.304	0	0	0	1	0	–
17	Tim Stowers	2000–2007	90	33	57	–	0.367	20	51	–	0.282	0	0	–	0	0	–
18	Darren Rizzi	2008	12	3	9	–	0.250	1	7	–	0.125	0	0	–	0	0	–
19	Joe Trainer	2009–2013	56	12	44	–	0.214	8	32	–	0.200	0	0	–	0	0	–
20	Jim Fleming	2014–present	130	59	73	–	0.447	39	52	–	0.429	2	2	–	0	2	–

v t e Rhode Island Rams football
Venues	Meade Stadium (1928–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Brown UConn
Culture & lore	Rhody the Ram
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	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

List of Rhode Island Rams head football coaches

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