List of Carroll Pioneers head football coaches
Encyclopedia
The Carroll Pioneers football program is a college football
team that represents Carroll University in the Midwest Conference
, a part of NCAA Division III. The team has had 27 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1896. The current coach is Mark Krzykowski
who first took the position for the 2011 season.
Wescott played for the Oconto, Wisconsin
town team in 1895 and played a game against the team that would become the Green Bay Packers
. Wescott was both a player and trainer, receiving accolades for his abilities to teach the game as well as to play.
Wescott was the second head coach at Carroll and he held that position for the 1896 season. Preliminary reports predicted a "lively" season. Wescott's players were predicted as promising before the season began.
Controversy was stirred up after a game against Milwaukee East High School on October 17, 1896. Carroll won the game 4-0, but the opposing team disputed the result. The next season's game was cancelled because Carroll was regularly using "ringers" or players that were brought in to the team from outside the school specifically to win games.
Wescott later went on to coach the successful Eau Claire, Wisconsin
high school team in 1902.
that had been bequested to Carroll College. She claimed that the "players were brutes" and would no longer support the school if they continued play. Later that same year (October 29), she died and left none of the funds to the college.
boasted that within four year's time Carroll will be beating the Wisconsin Badgers in football. In his one year of coaching, the team fell far short of that mark with its one win for the season and was outscored by 119 to 14 and left fans and the school administration sorely disappointed.
Batha played tackle
for Carroll. The school honored his legacy by inducting him into their "Hall of Fame" in 1973 as a "charter member" of the group.
Batha later became the 16th head football coach for his alma mater and he held that position for the 1931 season. His career coaching record at Carroll College was 1 win, 4 losses, and 1 tie. This ranks him 26th at Carroll College in total wins and 25th at Carroll College in winning percentage. He would remain with the program as assistant coach under Glenn Thistlethwaite
beginning in 1932. Coach Batha's poor performance was called the worst start in seven years for the program, which was attributed to weakness at the end positions and turnover in the bakcfield.
Batha also was the head basketball
coach at Carroll from 1931 until 1934, posting the 12th-most wins at the history of the school (as of 2007-2008 season) with a record of 29-13. He also was assistant Athletic Director
and head coach of the track and field
and cross country running
teams.
, mathematics
, and physical education
. Carroll college set up a memorial carillon
in his memory. One of his greatest joys was helping young men succeed in college and life.
Batha earned a Master of Science
from the University of Wisconsin in 1929 and completed research on platinum
and its reflective power as varied by temperature.
During World War II
, Batha served as a flight instructor at Carroll for the United States Army Air Corps
. The eight-week curriculum consisted of mathematics, navigation, and aviation operation. The program was coordinated through the college and taught at Waukesha County Airport
.
and was awarded the Silver Beaver in 1949. He was also active with the Kiwanis
organization. He was killed in an automobile accident on December 21, 1956.
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
team that represents Carroll University in the Midwest Conference
Midwest Conference
The Midwest Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States in the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin...
, a part of NCAA Division III. The team has had 27 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1896. The current coach is Mark Krzykowski
Mark Krzykowski
Mark Krzykowski is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He was named the head coach of Carroll University beginning with the 2011 season, replacing Henny Hiemenz who resigned in 2010.-External links:*...
who first took the position for the 2011 season.
Coaches
| # | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | Ward A. Wescott | 1896 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | J. G. Britton | 1898 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 3 | John D. Schwender John D. Schwender John D. Schwender was a college football coach in the United States. Due to significant injuries to his players during practice, the faculty of his school forced the discontinuation of the football program for one year.-Carroll College:... |
1899–1905 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 4 | Mark D. Nave Mark D. Nave Mark D. Nave was the sixth head college football coach for the Carroll College Pioneers located in Waukesha, Wisconsin and he held that position for three seasons, from 1901 until 1903. His career coaching record at Carroll College was 8 wins, 7 losses, and 4 ties... |
1901–1903 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 5 | Harrison McJohnston Harrison McJohnston Harrison McJohnston was an author and professor of business communication and advertising for college and university study in the United States.-Academics:... |
1908 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 6 | Wilfred C. Bleamaster Wilfred C. Bleamaster Wilfred Charles Bleamaster was a college football and basketball coach in the United States.-Carroll :... |
1909–1911 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 7 | William Davies | 1912 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 8 | Henry W. Lever Henry W. Lever Henry W. Lever was a college football coach in the United States. His coaching record was 6 wins, 7 losses, and 2 ties.In 1911, Lever was named the eightht head coach of the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs in Fort Worth, Texas... |
1913 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 9 | John Edmund Fries John Edmund Fries John Edmund "Jack" Fries was an American Football player, coach, and sports figure in the United States.-Playing history:Fries played right tackle for the Carroll College Pioneers located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. In his senior year, he was captain of the team that he played on for four years... |
1914–1920 | 30 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 10 | Roy E. Haberman | 1919 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 11 | C. C. Boone | 1921 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 12 | Madison A. "Matty" Bell Matty Bell Madison A. "Matty" Bell was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator in the United States... |
1922 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 13 | Phillip Norris "Army" Armstrong Phillip Norris Armstrong -References:... |
1923–1930 | 61 | 44 | 11 | 6 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 14 | Vincent P. Batha | 1931 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 15 | Glenn Thistlethwaite Glenn Thistlethwaite Glenn F. Thistlethwaite was an American football coach in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College , Northwestern University , the University of Wisconsin–Madison , Carroll College in Wisconsin , and the University of Richmond ,... |
1932–1933 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 16 | Elmer A. Lampe Elmer A. Lampe Elmer A. Lampe was an American coach of American football and basketball.Lampe went to college at the University of Chicago, where he was an All-American end. He graduated in 1926 with a Ph.B..... |
1934–1937 | 28 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 17 | John W. Breen John W. Breen John W. Breen was an American football and basketball player, coach, and sports figure. He was active in the college ranks before becoming an early sports administrator in the American Football League for the Houston Oilers.-Playing history:Breen grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and played high... |
1938–1948 | 58 | 36 | 15 | 7 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 18 | Francis J. "Mickey" McCormick Francis J. McCormick Francis J. "Mickey" McCormick was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at St. Norbert College from 1934 to 1942 and at Carroll College—now known as Carroll University—in Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1949 to 1957, compiling a career... |
1949–1957 | 69 | 37 | 31 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 19 | Lisle Blackbourn Lisle Blackbourn Lisle "Liz" Blackbourn was an American football coach who was the third head coach of the Green Bay Packers. He coached the Packers from 1954 to 1957.... |
1958 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 20 | Vince DiFrancesca Vince DiFrancesca Vincent DiFrancesca was a college football player and coach in the United States. His total career coaching record was 106 wins, 71 losses, and 7 ties.-Playing career:... |
1959–1971 | 110 | 62 | 43 | 5 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 21 | Steve Miller | 1972–1976 | 46 | 30 | 15 | 1 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 22 | Robert Larsen Robert Larsen Robert Larsen is a former American football coach and college athletic director in the United States.-Carroll College/University:... |
1977 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 23 | Mark W. Williams Mark W. Williams Mark W. Williams is a former US Army Ranger and participant in D-Day. After a successful business career, he entered sports to be an American football coach at the college level and currently is an associate professor emeritus of Business Administration at Carroll University.-Military... |
1978–1981 | 36 | 12 | 24 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 24 | Merle Masonholder Merle Masonholder Merle Masonholder is an American football player, coach, and sports figure in the United States.-Playing history:Masonholder played college football at the University of Northern Iowa, where he was a two-time first team "All-Conference" tackle and received honorable mention as an All-America... |
1978–2000 | 175 | 88 | 87 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 25 | Jeff Voris Jeff Voris Jeff Voris is a college football coach at Butler University and former quarterback at DePauw University. As of completion of the 2009 season, his head career coaching record is 39 wins and 55 losses.-Player accomplishments:... |
2001–2005 | 49 | 15 | 34 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 26 | Henny Hiemenz Henny Hiemenz -Coaching career:Coach Henny Hiemenz was the head football coach for the Carroll Pioneers located in Waukesha, Wisconsin from 2006 to 2010. His coaching record at Carroll was 28 wins and 22 losses... |
2006–2010 | 53 | 30 | 23 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | |
| 27 | Mark Krzykowski Mark Krzykowski Mark Krzykowski is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He was named the head coach of Carroll University beginning with the 2011 season, replacing Henny Hiemenz who resigned in 2010.-External links:*... |
2011– | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— | 0— |
Details
- The following are details on coaches that do not have articles on Wikipedia. For coaches with articles on Wikipedia, see links in the table above.
Oconto Eleven
Wescott played for the Oconto, Wisconsin
Oconto, Wisconsin
Oconto is a city in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,708 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located partially within the town of Oconto.-History:...
town team in 1895 and played a game against the team that would become the Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
. Wescott was both a player and trainer, receiving accolades for his abilities to teach the game as well as to play.
Carroll College
Wescott was the second head coach at Carroll and he held that position for the 1896 season. Preliminary reports predicted a "lively" season. Wescott's players were predicted as promising before the season began.
Controversy was stirred up after a game against Milwaukee East High School on October 17, 1896. Carroll won the game 4-0, but the opposing team disputed the result. The next season's game was cancelled because Carroll was regularly using "ringers" or players that were brought in to the team from outside the school specifically to win games.
High School
Wescott later went on to coach the successful Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Eau Claire is a city located in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 65,883 as of the 2010 census, making it the largest municipality in the northwestern portion of the state, and the 9th largest in the state overall. It is the county seat of Eau Claire County,...
high school team in 1902.
J. G. Britton
Britton was the head coach during a game witnessed by Miss Anna Sackett, who found the game to be so brutal that she revoked $5,000 (a sizeable sum at the time) from her willWill (law)
A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...
that had been bequested to Carroll College. She claimed that the "players were brutes" and would no longer support the school if they continued play. Later that same year (October 29), she died and left none of the funds to the college.
Charles C. Boone
While Boone was the coach, college president William Arthur GanfieldWilliam Arthur Ganfield
William Arthur Ganfield was a figure in American higher education and served as president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky from 1915 to 1921 and later president of Carroll College William Arthur Ganfield (b. September 3, 1873 in Dubuque County, Iowa, d. October 18, 1940 in Wisconsin) was a...
boasted that within four year's time Carroll will be beating the Wisconsin Badgers in football. In his one year of coaching, the team fell far short of that mark with its one win for the season and was outscored by 119 to 14 and left fans and the school administration sorely disappointed.
Vincent P. Batha
Playing history
Batha played tackle
Tackle
Tackle may refer to:* In football:** Tackle , a play in various forms of football** Tackle , a position in American football and Canadian football...
for Carroll. The school honored his legacy by inducting him into their "Hall of Fame" in 1973 as a "charter member" of the group.
Coaching history
Batha later became the 16th head football coach for his alma mater and he held that position for the 1931 season. His career coaching record at Carroll College was 1 win, 4 losses, and 1 tie. This ranks him 26th at Carroll College in total wins and 25th at Carroll College in winning percentage. He would remain with the program as assistant coach under Glenn Thistlethwaite
Glenn Thistlethwaite
Glenn F. Thistlethwaite was an American football coach in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College , Northwestern University , the University of Wisconsin–Madison , Carroll College in Wisconsin , and the University of Richmond ,...
beginning in 1932. Coach Batha's poor performance was called the worst start in seven years for the program, which was attributed to weakness at the end positions and turnover in the bakcfield.
Batha also was the head basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
coach at Carroll from 1931 until 1934, posting the 12th-most wins at the history of the school (as of 2007-2008 season) with a record of 29-13. He also was assistant Athletic Director
Athletic director
An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...
and head coach of the track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
and cross country running
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
teams.
Academics
While at Carroll, Batha also was an instructor of physicsPhysics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, and physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
. Carroll college set up a memorial carillon
Carillon
A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord...
in his memory. One of his greatest joys was helping young men succeed in college and life.
Batha earned a Master of Science
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
from the University of Wisconsin in 1929 and completed research on platinum
Platinum
Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal...
and its reflective power as varied by temperature.
During World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Batha served as a flight instructor at Carroll for the United States Army Air Corps
United States Army Air Corps
The United States Army Air Corps was a forerunner of the United States Air Force. Renamed from the Air Service on 2 July 1926, it was part of the United States Army and the predecessor of the United States Army Air Forces , established in 1941...
. The eight-week curriculum consisted of mathematics, navigation, and aviation operation. The program was coordinated through the college and taught at Waukesha County Airport
Waukesha County Airport
Waukesha County Airport , also known as Crites Field, is a public-use airport located two miles north of the central business district of Waukesha, a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States...
.
Personal life
Batha was very active in the Boy Scouts of AmericaBoy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over 4.5 million youth members in its age-related divisions...
and was awarded the Silver Beaver in 1949. He was also active with the Kiwanis
Kiwanis
Kiwanis International is an international, coeducational service club founded in 1915. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Current membership is 240,000 members in 7,700 clubs in 80 nations...
organization. He was killed in an automobile accident on December 21, 1956.