List of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head football coaches
This is a list of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football head coaches. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the football team of the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The team competes as an Independent at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Notre Dame has the most consensus national championships and has produced more All-Americans than any other Football Bowl Subdivision school. Additionally, seven Fighting Irish football players have won the Heisman Trophy. Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College, and one of a handful of programs independent of a football conference. The team plays its home games on Notre Dame's campus at Notre Dame Stadium, also known as the "House that Rockne Built," which has a capacity of 80,795. The current head coach is Brian Kelly.
Key
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Number of coaches[1] |
GC |
Games Coached |
W |
Wins |
L |
Loses |
T |
Ties |
W–L % |
Win–Loss percentage |
Coaches
Tenure |
Coach |
Years |
Record |
Pct. |
National Titles (outright & shared) |
1887–89, 92–93 | None | 5 | 7–4-1 | .625 | |
1894 | J.L. Morison | 1 | 3–1–1 | .700 | |
1895 | H. G. Hadden | 1 | 3–1–0 | .750 | |
1896–98 | Frank E. Hering | 3 | 12–6–1 | .658 | |
1899 | James McWeeney | 1 | 6–3–1 | .650 | |
1900–01 | Pat O'Dea | 2 | 14–4–2 | .750 | |
1902–03 | James F. Faragher | 2 | 14–2–2 | .843 | |
1904 | Red Salmon | 1 | 5–3–0 | .625 | |
1905 | Henry J. McGlew | 1 | 5–4–0 | .556 | |
1906–07 | Thomas A. Barry | 2 | 12–1–1 | .893 | |
1908 | Victor M. Place | 1 | 8–1–0 | .889 | |
1909–10 | Shorty Longman | 2 | 11–1–2 | .857 | |
1911–12 | Jack Marks | 2 | 13–0–2 | .933 | |
1913–17 | Jesse Harper | 5 | 34–5–1 | .863 | |
1918–30 | Knute Rockne | 13 | 105–12–5 | .881 | 1919,1920,1924,1929,1930 |
1931–33 | Heartley William "Hunk" Anderson | 3 | 16–9–2 | .630 | |
1934–40 | Elmer Layden | 7 | 47–13–3 | .770 | 1938 |
1941–43, 46–53 | Frank Leahy | 11 | 87–11–9 | .855 | 1943,1946,1947,1949,1953 |
1944 | Edward McKeever | 1 | 8–2–0 | .800 | |
1945, 63 | Hugh Devore | 2 | 9–9–1 | .500 | |
1954–58 | Terry Brennan | 5 | 32–18–0 | .640 | |
1959–62 | Joe Kuharich | 4 | 17–23–0 | .425 | |
1964–74 | Ara Parseghian | 11 | 95–17–4 | .836 | 1966, 1973 |
1975–80 | Dan Devine | 6 | 53–16–1 | .764 | 1977 |
1981–85 | Gerry Faust | 5 | 30–26–1 | .535 | |
1986–96 | Lou Holtz | 11 | 100–30–2 | .765 | 1988 |
1997–2001 | Bob Davie | 5 | 35–25 | .583 | |
2001* | George O'Leary | 0 | 0–0 | .000 | |
2002–2004 | Tyrone Willingham | 3 | 21–15 | .583 | |
2004** | Kent Baer | 1 | 0–1 | .000 | |
2005–2009 | Charlie Weis | 5 | 35–27 | .565 | |
2010–present | Brian Kelly | 7 | 59–31 | .656 | |
Totals |
31 coaches |
126 seasons |
895–321–42 |
.731 |
* George O'Leary did not coach a single practice or game, being fired five days after being hired; he had misrepresented his academic credentials. |
** Kent Baer served as interim head coach for one game at the 2004 Insight Bowl, after Tyrone Willingham was fired. |
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References
- ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Fighting Irish.
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