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TheArmy Black Knightscollege football team represents theUnited States Military Academy (Army) in theAmerican Athletic Conference (AAC), as part of theNCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 36 head coaches and one interim head coach since it began play during the1890 season. Since December 2013,Jeff Monken has served as head coach at Army.[1]
Four coaches have led Army in postseasonbowl games:Jim Young,Bob Sutton,Rich Ellerson, and Monken. Although no coach has led the Black Knights to a conference championship,Charles Dudley Daly won two (1914 and1916) andEarl Blaik won three (1944,1945,1946)national championships.
Blaik is the leader in seasons coached, with 18 years as head coach and in games coached (164) and won (121).Geoffrey Keyes has the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game at .875.John Mumford has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .000. Of the 36 different head coaches who have led the Black Knights,Henry L. Williams, Daly,John McEwan,Biff Jones, Blaik, and Young have been inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame.
| 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 theCollege Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overallwinning percentage[A 4] | ||||
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dennis Michie | 1890 1892 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 2 | Henry L. Williams† | 1891 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0.786 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 3 | Laurie Bliss | 1893 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0.444 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 4 | Harmon S. Graves | 1894–1895 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0.714 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 5 | George P. Dyer | 1896 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 6 | Herman Koehler | 1897–1900 | 33 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 0.621 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 7 | Leon Kromer | 1901 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 8 | Dennis E. Nolan | 1902 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0.813 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 9 | Edward Leonard King | 1903 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0.722 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 10 | Robert Boyers | 1904–1905 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0.639 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 11 | Ernest Graves Sr. | 1906 1912 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0.469 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 12 | Henry Smither [A 6] | 1906–1907 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 13 | Harry Nelly | 1908–1910 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0.727 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 14 | Joseph Beacham | 1911 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0.813 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 15 | Charles Dudley Daly† | 1913–1916 1919–1922 | 69 | 58 | 13 | 3 | 0.804 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 –1914 1916 | – |
| 16 | Geoffrey Keyes | 1917 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0.875 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 17 | Hugh Mitchell | 1918 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 18 | John McEwan† | 1923–1925 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 19 | Biff Jones† | 1926–1929 | 40 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 0.775 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 20 | Ralph Sasse | 1930–1932 | 32 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 0.813 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 21 | Garrison H. Davidson | 1933–1937 | 47 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 0.755 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 22 | William H. Wood | 1938–1940 | 28 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 0.482 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 23 | Earl Blaik† | 1941–1958 | 164 | 121 | 33 | 10 | 0.768 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 –1944 1945 1946 | – |
| 24 | Dale Hall | 1959–1961 | 29 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 0.586 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 25 | Paul Dietzel | 1962–1965 | 40 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 0.538 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 26 | Tom Cahill | 1966–1973 | 81 | 40 | 39 | 2 | 0.506 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | AFCA Coach of the Year (1966) FWAA Coach of the Year (1966) |
| 27 | Homer Smith | 1974–1978 | 55 | 21 | 33 | 1 | 0.391 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 28 | Lou Saban | 1979 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0.227 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 29 | Ed Cavanaugh | 1980–1982 | 33 | 10 | 21 | 2 | 0.333 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 30 | Jim Young† | 1983–1990 | 91 | 51 | 39 | 1 | 0.566 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 0 | – |
| 31 | Bob Sutton | 1991–1999 | 100 | 44 | 55 | 1 | 0.445 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0.250 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32 | Todd Berry | 2000–2003 | 40 | 5 | 35 | – | 0.125 | 4 | 22 | – | 0.154 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| Int | John Mumford [A 7] | 2003 | 7 | 0 | 7 | – | .000 | 0 | 4 | – | .000 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 33 | Bobby Ross | 2004–2006 | 34 | 9 | 25 | – | 0.265 | 2 | 6 | – | 0.250 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34 | Stan Brock | 2007–2008 | 24 | 6 | 18 | – | 0.250 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 35 | Rich Ellerson | 2009–2013 | 61 | 20 | 41 | – | 0.328 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 36 | Jeff Monken | 2014–present | 139 | 82 | 57 | – | 0.590 | 8 | 0 | – | 1.000 | 5 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |