List of Northern Arizona Lumberjacks head football coaches
The Northern Arizona Lumberjacks college football team represents Northern Arizona University in the Big Sky Conference (Big Sky). The Lumberjacks compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision.
Hired in 2019, Chris Ball is Northern Arizona's current head coach.
Head coaches[edit]
The following are the head coaches of the Lumberjacks.[1]
- Clarence Thorpe (1915–1917)
- R. A. Fuller (1918)
- L. T. Lawyer (1919)
- McVey & Lacey Eastburn (1920)
- R. H. Drake (1921–1922)
- Robert G. Stevenson (1923)
- W. E. Rogers (1924)
- Talbert D. Jessuppe (1925)
- Emzy Harvey Lynch (1926)
- Rudy Lavik (1927–1932)[2]
- Ira MacIntosh (1933–1936)
- Garrett Arbelbide (1937–1939)
- Maurice Moulder (1940–1942)
- Frank Brickey (1943–1946)
- Nick Ragus (1947–1948)
- Emil Ladyko (1949)
- Ben Reiges (1950)
- John Pederson (1951–1953)
- Earl Insley (1954–1955)
- Max Spilsbury (1956–1964)
- Andy MacDonald (1965–1968)
- John Symank (1969–1970)
- Ed Peasley (1971–1974)
- Joe Salem (1975–1978)
- Dwain Painter (1979–1981)
- Joe Harper (1982–1984)
- Larry Kentera (1985–1989)
- Steve Axman (1990–1997)
- Jerome Souers (1998–2018)
- Chris Ball (2019–2023)
- Brian Wright (since 2024)[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "2012 Northern Arizona Football Media Guide by NAU Athletics". issuu. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ "Candidates For Jack Grid Team Report Sept 17". The Arizona Republican. September 1, 1927. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Football Coaches". Northern Arizona University Athletics.