TheGeneva Golden Tornadoes football program is acollege football team that representsGeneva College in thePresidents' Athletic Conference, a part of theNCAA Division III. The team has had 29 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1890.
Among the coaches in the history at Geneva College includeCollege Football Hall of Fame membersBo McMillin andCal Hubbard.
The current coach isGeno DeMarco who first took the position for the 1993 season. He leads the list with the most games coached and the most total wins.Samuel G. Craig has the highest winning percentage of the coaches at .859, accumulated from 1900 through the 1903 seasons and a total of 32 games.Arthur McKean managed the mosttie games with 7.[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 theCollege Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overallwinning percentage[A 4] | ||||
| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William McCracken | 1890–1896 | 36 | 17 | 18 | 1 | .486 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Ross Fiscus | 1897–1899 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 2 | .412 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Samuel G. Craig | 1900–1903 | 32 | 26 | 3 | 3 | .859 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Smith Alford | 1904 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | .286 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Archibald Leech | 1905 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | .444 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Arthur McKean | 1907–1911 | 41 | 10 | 24 | 7 | .329 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Graydon Long | 1912 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | .429 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | C. Brainerd Metheny | 1913–1916 | 32 | 16 | 14 | 2 | .531 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Philip Henry Bridenbaugh | 1917–1921 | 40 | 23 | 12 | 5 | .638 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Robert Park | 1922 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | .400 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Tom Davies | 1923 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .722 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Jack Sack | 1924 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .444 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Bo McMillin† | 1925–1927 | 29 | 22 | 6 | 1 | .776 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Mack Flenniken | 1928–1929 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 1 | .395 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Howard Harpster | 1930–1932 | 30 | 22 | 6 | 2 | .767 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Jimmy Robertson | 1933 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .667 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Dwight V. Beede | 1934–1936 | 26 | 14 | 9 | 3 | .596 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Edgar P. Weltner | 1937–1940 | 37 | 16 | 19 | 2 | .459 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Alured C. Ransom | 1941–1948 | 34 | 20 | 12 | 2 | .618 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Cal Hubbard† | 1942 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .667 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Walter J. West | 1949–1952 | 34 | 18 | 14 | 2 | .559 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Byron E. Morgan | 1953–1962 | 87 | 46 | 35 | 6 | .563 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Donald Lederick | 1963–1966 | 32 | 5 | 26 | 1 | .172 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Joe Banks | 1967–1968 | 16 | 1 | 14 | 1 | .094 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | Dan Frasier | 1969–1971 | 26 | 9 | 16 | 1 | .365 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | Max Holm | 1972–1973 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | .667 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Dick Lasse | 1974–1975 | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | .056 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | Gene Sullivan | 1976–1992 | 160 | 76 | 82 | 2 | .481 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 29 | Geno DeMarco | 1993–2025 | 336 | 173 | 163 | 0 | .515 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 30 | Tom Contenta | 2026–present | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Dr. Archibald W. Leech played football, basketball, and baseball at Geneva College. He was known for his athletic skills and was named "one of the most noted athletes ever graduated" from the school.[5] The school suffered one of its largest defeats toPenn State[6] by a score of 73 to 0.[7] This game was also Penn State's ninth largest all-time margin of victory and total points scored.[8]
Leech only coached football for one year at Geneva, but stayed on as a full professor at the college.[9] Leech gained prominence as an educator and businessman in the area ofCambria County, Pennsylvania, where he also served aspostmaster.[5]
Graydon Long (March 11, 1889-September 1966) was a professional football officials in the early days of the sport, officiating games of teams that would later make up theNational Football League.
Long played high school football at West high School inRochester, New York, as a member of the class of 1908.[10] The 1906 team concluded an undefeated season and the 1907 team produced solid results as well.[11]
After coaching in the college ranks, Long worked as an official for professional football[12] at the time, primarily working games for the future NFL teamRochester Jeffersons.[13]
Joseph Banks (September 8, 1919 – June 19, 2007) was a long-time college athletics figure inOhio andPennsylvania. He worked as ahead coach forAmerican football andtrack & field.
Banks was the 24th head coach at Geneva[14] for two seasons, from 1967[15] until 1968. His one victory came in the last game of the 1967 season againstBridgewater College by a score of 30 to 13.[16]
Prior to taking the position at Geneva, he was the head track coach and assistant football coach atOhio Northern University inAda, Ohio, from 1960 until 1967.[17] where he completed a "turnaround season" in 1962.[18] After coaching at Geneva and a brief stint at a high school, he would return to Ohio Northern in 1971 for the remainder of his career, where he retired in 2002 as an admissions counselor.[14] He has been credited with recruiting more students than any other person to Ohio Northern.[19]
While at Ohio Northern, Banks would regularly hold training sessions for high school athletic administrators on how to run and promote track and field meets as well as how to coach individual events.[20]
Ohio Northern honored his contribution to the university[21] by naming their home track meet the "Joe Banks Invitational."[22]
Banks served in the United States military duringWorld War II as a Sergeant with the Third Army's 965th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance company in the Rhineland (Battle of the Bulge) and the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in thePhilippines.[23]
Banks earned aBachelor of Science in education and later aBachelor of Arts from Ohio Northern University.[24] He later completed aMaster of Education fromKent State University. He graduated from high school atNew Philadelphia in 1937 where he was coached at track & field byWoody Hayes.[25]
Daniel M. Frasier was namedNAIA District 18 Coach of the Year in 1971.[26] Frasier engineered a turnaround of the program, when the football team went to what was considered a "laughing stock of the district" to an 8-0 start in 1971 (some records show a 7-0 start and losing the last two games[27]).[28]
Before being head football coach at Geneva, he was assistant football coach at Geneva under Donald Lederick while simultaneously acting as the head baseball coach. He also played minor league baseball for theHouston Astros farm team.[29]
Upon retirement from college coaching, he entered the private sector and took a career inbanking.[26]