Note: There is a separate "Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award" presented by the United States Sports Academy (USSA).

The Amos Alonzo Stagg Award is presented annually by the American Football Coaches Association

American Football Coaches Association

The American Football Coaches Association is an association of over 11,000 football coaches and staff on all levels. According to its constitution, some of the main goals of the American Football Coaches Association are to "maintain the highest possible standards in football and the profession of...

 (AFCA) to the “individual, group or institution whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests of football’’. Recipients receive a plaque which is a replica of the one given to Stagg at the 1939 AFCA Convention in tribute to his 50 years of service to football. The purpose of the award is “to perpetuate the example and influence of Amos Alonzo Stagg".

The award is named in honor of Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football...

, who was instrumental in founding the AFCA in the 1920s. Stagg is considered one of the great innovators and motivating forces in the early development of the game of football and had one of the longest head coaching tenures in the history of the college game.

Winners

• 1940 Donald Herring, Jr.
• 1941 William H. Cowell (posthumously)
• 1942 No award given
• 1943 No award given
• 1944 No award given
• 1945 No award given
• 1946 Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice was an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1947 William A. Alexander
  William Alexander (football coach)
  William Anderson Alexander was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1920 to 1944, compiling a record of 134–95–15. Alexander's 1928 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have been recognized as national...
  
  
• 1948 Gilmour Dobie
  Gil Dobie
  Gilmour "Gloomy Gil" Dobie was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at North Dakota Agricultural College—now North Dakota State University , the University of Washington , the United States Naval Academy , Cornell University , and...
  
  , Glenn S. "Pop" Warner
  Glenn Scobey Warner
  Glenn Scobey Warner , most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American football player and coach...
  
  , Robert C. Zuppke
  Robert Zuppke
  Robert Carl Zuppke was an American football coach. He served the head coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1913 until 1941, compiling a career college football record of 131–81–12. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, Zuppke coached his...
  
  
• 1949 Richard C. Harlow
  Dick Harlow
  Richard Cresson "Dick" Harlow was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Pennsylvania State University , Colgate University , Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College , and Harvard University , compiling a career...
  
  
• 1950 No award given
• 1951 DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry
• 1952 A.N. "Bo" McMillin
  Bo McMillin
  Alvin Nugent "Bo" McMillin was an American football player and coach, who served at both the collegiate and professional levels. He played college football at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where was a three-time All-American at quarterback, and led the Centre Praying Colonels to a...
  
  
• 1953 Lou Little
  Lou Little
  Lou "Luigi Piccolo" Little was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Georgetown College, now Georgetown University, from 1924 to 1929 and at Columbia University from 1930 to 1956, compiling a career college football record of 151–128–13...
  
  
• 1954 Dana X. Bible
  Dana X. Bible
  Dana Xenophon Bible was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College , Louisiana State University , Texas A&M University , the University of Nebraska , and the University of Texas...
  
  
• 1955 Joseph J. Tomlin
• 1956 No award given
• 1957 Gen. Robert R. Neyland
  Robert Neyland
  Robert Reese Neyland, MBE was an American football player and coach and and officer in the United States Army, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He served three stints as the head football coach as the University of Tennessee...
  
  
• 1958 Bernie Bierman
  Bernie Bierman
  Bernard W. "Bernie" Bierman was an American football player and coach. He coached from 1919 to 1950 except for a span during World War II when he served in the U.S. armed forces...
  
  
• 1959 Dr. John W. Wilce
  John Wilce
  John Woodworth "Jack" Wilce was an American football player and coach, physician, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at Ohio State University from 1913 to 1928, compiling a record of 78–33–9...
  
  
• 1960 Harvey J. Harman
  Harvey Harman
  Harvey J. Harman was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Haverford College , Sewanee: The University of the South , the University of Pennsylvania , and Rutgers University , compiling a career college football record of...
  
  
• 1961 Ray Eliot
  Ray Eliot
  Raymond Eliot Nusspickel was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach Illinois College from 1933 to 1936 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1942 to 1959, compiling a career college football...
  
  
• 1962 E.E. "Tad" Wieman
  Elton Wieman
  Elton Ewart "Tad" Wieman was an American football player and coach and college athletic director. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1915 to 1917 and 1920 under head coach Fielding H. Yost. He was a coach and administrator at Michigan from 1921 to 1929, including two years as...
  
  
• 1963 Andrew Kerr
  Andrew Kerr
  Andrew "Andy" Kerr IV was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Stanford University , Washington & Jefferson College , Colgate University , and Lebanon Valley College , compiling a career college football record...
  
  
• 1964 Don Faurot
  Don Faurot
  Donald Burrows Faurot was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, now Truman State University, from 1926 to 1934 and at the University of Missouri from 1935 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1956...
  
  
• 1965 Harry Stuhldreher
  Harry Stuhldreher
  Harry Augustus Stuhldreher was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played quarterback at University of Notre Dame from 1922 to 1924, where he was a three-time All-American and member of the legendary "Four Horsemen" backfield...
  
  
• 1966 Bernie H. Moore
  Bernie Moore
  -External links:...
  
  
• 1967 Jess Neely
  Jess Neely
  Jess C. Neely was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Southwestern University, now Rhodes College , Clemson University , and Rice University , compiling a career college football record of 207–176–19...
  
  
• 1968 Abe Martin
  Abe Martin
  -External links:* at the Handbook of Texas...
  
  
• 1969 Charles A. "Rip" Engle
  Rip Engle
  Charles A. "Rip" Engle was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at Brown University from 1944 to 1949 and at Pennsylvania State University from 1950 to 1965, compiling a career college football record of 132–68–8...
  
  
• 1970 Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf
• 1971 Bill Murray
• 1972 Jack Curtice
  Jack Curtice
  Jack C. "Cactus Jack" Curtice was an American football coach. From 1940 to 1941, he served as the head football coach at West Texas A&M, where he compiled a 15–5 record. From 1946 to 1949, he served as the head football coach at UTEP, where he compiled a 24–13–3 record. From 1950 to 1957, he...
  
  
• 1973 Lloyd Jordan
  Lloyd Jordan
  Lloyd Jordan was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Amherst College from 1932 to 1949 and at Harvard University from 1950 to 1956, compiling a career college football record of 101–72–8...
  
  
• 1974 Alonzo S. "Jake" Gaither
  Jake Gaither
  Alonzo Smith "Jake" Gaither was the head football coach at Florida A&M University for 25 years, and amassed one of the best winning records of any college football coach....
  
  
• 1975 Gerald B. Zornow
  Gerald B. Zornow
  Gerald B. Zornow graduated from the University of Rochester in 1937, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He was a three-sport letter winner and has been inducted into the University of Rochester Athletic Hall of Fame posthumously in 1992.-Business:He served as the President of Eastman Kodak...
  
  
• 1976 No award given

• 1977 Floyd "Ben" Schwartzwalder
  Ben Schwartzwalder
  Floyd B. "Ben" Schwartzwalder was a Hall of Fame football coach at Syracuse University, where he trained such future National Football League stars as Jim Brown, as well as the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy, Ernie Davis.Schwartzwalder played center at West Virginia University,...
  
  
• 1978 Thomas J. Hamilton
  Tom Hamilton (coach)
  Thomas James "Tom" Hamilton was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and naval aviator who rose to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy...
  
  
• 1979 H.O. "Fritz" Crisler
  Fritz Crisler
  Herbert Orin "Fritz" Crisler was an American football coach who is best known as "the father of two-platoon football," an innovation in which separate units of players were used for offense and defense. Crisler developed two-platoon football while serving as head coach at the University of...
  
  
• 1980 No award given
• 1981 Fred Russell
  Fred Russell
  Fred Russell was an American sports writer prominent in the Golden Era of Sports in the 20th century...
  
  
• 1982 Eddie Robinson
• 1983 Paul W. "Bear" Bryant
  Bear Bryant
  Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships...
  
  
• 1984 Charles B. "Bud" Wilkinson
  Bud Wilkinson
  Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson was an American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician. He served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4. His Oklahoma Sooners won three national championships and 14...
  
  
• 1985 Duffy Daugherty
  Duffy Daugherty
  Hugh Duffy Daugherty was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Michigan State University from 1954 to 1972, where he compiled a career record of 109–69–5. Duffy's 1965 and 1966 teams won national championships...
  
  
• 1986 Woody Hayes
  Woody Hayes
  Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Denison University , Miami University , and Ohio State University , compiling a career college football record of 238–72–10.During his 28 seasons as the head coach of the Ohio...
  
  
• 1987 Field Scovell
• 1988 G. Herbert McCracken
  Herb McCracken
  G. Herbert McCracken was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Allegheny College from 1921 to 1923 and at Lafayette College from 1924 to 1935, compiling a career college football record of 75–48–7. His 1926 Lafayette Leopards team was recognized as a...
  
  
• 1989 David Nelson
  David M. Nelson
  David Moir Nelson was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, author, and authority on college football playing rules...
  
  
• 1990 Len Casanova
  Len Casanova
  Leonard Joseph "Len" Casanova was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator...
  
  
• 1991 Bob Blackman
  Bob Blackman
  Bob Blackman was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Denver , Dartmouth College , the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , and Cornell University , compiling a career college football record of...
  
  
• 1992 Charles McClendon
  Charles McClendon
  Charles Youmans McClendon , also known as Charlie or "Cholly Mac," was an American football player and coach. He served at the head coach at Louisiana State University from 1962 to 1979. McClendon was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.-Early years:McClendon was born on...
  
  
• 1993 Keith Jackson
  Keith Jackson
  Keith Jackson is an American sportscaster, known for his long career with ABC Sports , his coverage of college football , his style of folksy, down-to-earth commentary, and his distinctive voice, with its deep cadence, and operatic tone considered "like Edward R...
  
  
• 1994 Bob Devaney
  Bob Devaney
  Robert S. "Bob" Devaney was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Wyoming from 1957 to 1961 and at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1962 to 1972, compiling a career college football record of 136–30–7...
  
  
• 1995 John Merritt
  John Merritt
  John Ayers Merritt was a head football coach at Jackson State University and Tennessee State University...
  
   (posthumously)
• 1996 Chuck Neinas
  Chuck Neinas
  Chuck Neinas is the current interim commissioner of the Big 12 Conference replacing Dan Beebe. Neinas was also the commissioner of the Big Eight Conference from 1971 to 1980.-References:...
  
  
• 1997 Ara Parseghian
  Ara Parseghian
  Ara Raoul Parseghian is a former American football player and coach of Armenian descent. He served as the head football coach at Miami University , Northwestern University , and the University of Notre Dame , compiling a career college football record of 170–58–6...
  
  
• 1998 Bob Reade
  Bob Reade
  Bob Reade is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois from 1979 to 1994, compiling a record of 146–23–1. His Augustana Vikings won four consecutive NCAA Division III National Football Championships from...
  
  
• 1999 Bo Schembechler
  Bo Schembechler
  Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler, Jr. was an American football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989, compiling a career record of 234–65–8...
  
  
• 2000 Tom Osborne
• 2001 Vince Dooley
  Vince Dooley
  Vincent Joseph Dooley was the head football coach and athletic director at the University of Georgia. During his 25 year coaching career at UGA, Dooley compiled a 201–77–10 record. His teams won six Southeastern Conference titles and the 1980 national championship...
  
  
• 2002 Joe Paterno
  Joe Paterno
  Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno is a former college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for 46 years from 1966 through 2011. Paterno, nicknamed "JoePa," holds the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision football coach with...
  
  
• 2003 LaVell Edwards
  LaVell Edwards
  R. LaVell Edwards is a former American football coach of Brigham Young University . With 257 career victories, he ranks as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time...
  
  
• 2004 Ron Schipper
  Ron Schipper
  Ron "Skip" Schipper was an American college football coach at Central College in Pella, Iowa from 1961 to 1996....
  
  
• 2005 Hayden Fry
  Hayden Fry
  John Hayden Fry is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Southern Methodist University , North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas , and the University of Iowa , compiling a career college football record of 232–178–10...
  
  
• 2006 Grant Teaff
  Grant Teaff
  Grant Garland Teaff is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at McMurry University , Angelo State University , and Baylor University , compiling a career college football record of 170–151–8...
  
  
• 2007 Bill Curry
  Bill Curry
  William Alexander "Bill" Curry is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head coach at Georgia State University, which began competing in college football in 2010...
  
  
• 2008 Bill Walsh (posthumously)
• 2009 John Gagliardi
  John Gagliardi
  John Gagliardi is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, a position he has held since 1953. From 1949 to 1952, he was the head football coach at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. With a career record of...
  
  
• 2010 Darrell Royal
  Darrell Royal
  Darrell K Royal is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University , the University of Washington , and the University of Texas at Austin , compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5...
  
  
• 2011 Bobby Bowden
  Bobby Bowden
  Robert Cleckler "Bobby" Bowden is a retired college football coach. He coached the Florida State Seminoles football team from the 1976 to 2009 seasons...
  
  

See also

• Walter Camp Man of the Year
  Walter Camp Man of the Year
  The Walter Camp Man of the Year is one of seven awards given annually by the Walter Camp Football Foundation. The award is given to the "Man of the Year" in the world of college football. It honors an individual who has been closely associated with the game of American football as a player, coach...
  
  
• Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
  Walter Camp Distinguished American Award
  The Walter Camp Distinguished American Award is presented by the Walter Camp Football Foundation to an individual who has used his or her talents to attain great success in business, private life or public service and who may have accomplished that which no other has done.The recipient does not...
  
  
• Walter Camp Alumni of the Year
  Walter Camp Alumni of the Year
  The Walter Camp “Alumni of the Year” award is bestowed by the Walter Camp Football Foundation on a worthy individual who has distinguished himself in the pursuit of excellence as an athlete, in his personal career and in doing good works for others. He must be an individual who has exhibited...
  
  
• National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award
  National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award
  The National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award is among the highest offered by the National Football Foundation . Every year, the NFF & College Football Hall of Fame pays tribute to a select few with awards of excellence for exhibiting superior qualities of scholarship, citizenship...
  
  
• National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners
  National Football Foundation Gold Medal Winners
  Each football season, The National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame pays tribute to a select few with awards of excellence for exhibiting superior qualities of scholarship, citizenship and leadership. Additionally, the Foundation also recognizes individuals who demonstrate...
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)
  Theodore Roosevelt Award (NCAA)
  The Theodore Roosevelt Award is the highest honor the National Collegiate Athletic Association may confer on an individual. The award is awarded annually to a graduate from an NCAA member institution who earned a varsity letter in college for participation in intercollegiate athletics, and who...
  
  
• Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
  Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
  The Walter Payton Man of the Year award is given annually by the National Football League honoring a player's volunteer and charity work, as well as his excellence on the field. Prior to 1999, it was called simply the NFL Man of the Year Award...
  
  
• "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award
  "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award
  The Byron "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award has been awarded by the National Football League Players Association continuously since 1966. The most recent winner, for the 2010 season, is Tony Richardson of the New York Jets...
  
  

External links

• Amos Alonzo Stagg Award