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The Bucknell Bison football program is a college football team that represents Bucknell University in the Patriot League, a part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The team has had 29 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1883. The current coach is Dave Cecchini, who took the position prior to the 2019 season.[1]

Key

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Key to symbols in coaches list
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

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Coaching information as of the 2024 football season

No. Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL CCs Awards
1 No Coach 1883–1894 47 22 22 3 .500
2 Bill Young 1895–1896 15 10 4 1 .700
3 George Jennings 1897–1898 18 7 7 4 .500
4 George Hoskins 1899–1906; 1909 81 40 37 4 .519
5 J.H. Costello 1907 11 4 7 0 .364
6 Paul Smith 1908 10 3 5 2 .400
7 Byron Dickson 1910–1913 38 20 16 2 .553
8 George Cockill 1914 9 4 4 1 .500
9 George Johnson 1915–1917 32 8 20 4 .313
10 Edgar Wingard 1918 6 6 0 0 1.000
11 Pete Reynolds 1919–1923 48 27 18 3 .594
12 Charles Moran 1924–1926 31 19 10 2 .645
13 Carl Snavely 1927–1933 66 42 16 8 .697
14 Edward Mylin 1934–1936 29 17 9 3 .638
15 Al Humphreys 1937–1942; 1946 59 30 24 5 .551
16 John Sitarsky 1943 10 6 4 0 .600
17 Ellwood Ludwig 1944–1945 17 9 7 1 .559
18 Harry Lawrence 1947–1957 97 45 51 1 .469
19 Bob Odell 1958–1964 63 37 26 0 .587
20 Carroll Huntress 1965–1968 38 19 19 0 .500
21 Fred Prender 1969–1974 57 23 31 3 .430
22 Bob Curtis 1975–1985 107 48 56 3 .463
23 George Landis 1986–1988 30 10 19 1 .350
24 Lou Maranzana 1989–1994 64 26 38 0 .406
25 Tom Gadd 1995–2001 76 48 28 0 .632
26 Dave Kotulski 2002 11 2 9 0 .182
27 Tim Landis 2003–2009 78 32 46 0 .410
28 Joe Susan 2010–2018 99 38 61 0 .384
29 Dave Cecchini 2019–present 48 13 35 0 .271

Notes

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  1. ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[2]
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[3]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "2024 Bucknell Football Record Book" (PDF). Bucknell Bison. Bucknell. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
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