# List of Morningside Mustangs head football coaches

The Morningside Mustangs program is a college football team that represents Morningside University in the Great Plains Athletic Conference, a part of the NAIA. The team has had 23 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1898. The current coach is Steve Ryan who first took the position for the 2002 season. The program did not field a varsity team in 2001 as the school transitioned from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

## Key

Key to symbols in coaches list :
| General | General | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Postseason | Postseason |
| No. | Order of coaches | 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 | C% | Conference winning percentage | | |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage | | | | |

## Coaches

| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | Awards |
| 1 | Robert Van Horne | 1898, 1900 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .417 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | no team | 1899 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | unknown | 1901 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .400 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Charles G. Flanagan | 1902 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Everett M. Sweeley | 1903 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .625 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Eli F. Peckumn | 1904 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | .214 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | John L. Griffith | 1905–1907 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 4 | .652 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | John W. Hollister | 1908–1910 | 24 | 11 | 10 | 3 | .521 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Harry W. Ewing | 1911 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .667 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Jason M. Saunderson | 1912–1941 | 224 | 116 | 97 | 11 | .542 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Stafford Cassell | 1942 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | .250 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | no team | 1943–1944 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Russell Hughes | 1945 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Les Davis | 1946–1947 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 1 | .441 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | George H. Allen | 1948–1950 | 29 | 16 | 11 | 2 | .586 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Clayton Droullard | 1951–1954 | 33 | 16 | 16 | 1 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Dewey Halford | 1955–1973 | 168 | 73 | 92 | 3 | .443 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | John Dornon | 1974–1976 | 27 | 4 | 22 | 1 | .167 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Steve Miller | 1977–1979 | 29 | 4 | 23 | 2 | .172 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Lyle Eidsness | 1980 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | .273 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Tim McGuire | 1981–1982 | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | .318 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Erv Mondt | 1983–1988 | 66 | 19 | 46 | 1 | .295 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Dave Dolch | 1989–1992 | 43 | 14 | 28 | 1 | .337 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Charlie Cowdrey | 1993–1995 | 33 | 5 | 26 | 2 | .182 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Dave Elliott | 1996–2000 | 55 | 7 | 48 | 0 | .127 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | no team | 2001 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Steve Ryan | 2002– | 273 | 228 | 45 | 0 | .835 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |