# List of Wichita State Shockers head football coaches

The Wichita State Shockers football program was a college football team that represented Wichita State University until the school discontinued football. The team had 32 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1897. The last head coach for the team was Ron Chismar who first took the position for the 1984 season.

## 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/Notes |
| 01 | T. H. Morrison | 1897 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | No coach | 1898 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 02 | Harry Hess | 1899–1901 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 03 | Guy Peverly | 1902 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | .563 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | No coach | 1903 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .750 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 04 | A. F. Holste | 1904 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | .444 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 05 | Willis Bates | 1905–1908 | 39 | 28 | 8 | 3 | .756 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 06 | Roy K. Thomas | 1909–1911 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 2 | .640 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 07 | E. V. Long | 1912–1913 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | .353 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 08 | Harry Buck | 1914–1915 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | .438 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 09 | Quince Banbury | 1918 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .200 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Kenneth Cassidy | 1919 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | .250 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Wilmer D. Elfrink | 1920 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .444 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Lamar Hoover | 1916–1922 | 36 | 18 | 14 | 4 | .556 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Leonard J. Umnus | 1925–1927 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 4 | .609 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Sam H. Hill | 1923–1929 | 33 | 14 | 14 | 5 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Albert J. Gebert | 1930–1941 | 114 | 68 | 40 | 6 | .623 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Melvin J. Binford | 1944–1945 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | .639 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Ralph Graham | 1942–1947 | 30 | 17 | 13 | 0 | .567 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Jim Trimble | 1948–1950 | 30 | 13 | 14 | 3 | .483 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Bob Carlson | 1951–1952 | 19 | 5 | 13 | 1 | .289 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Jack Mitchell | 1953–1954 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | .711 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Pete Tillman | 1955–1956 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 1 | .575 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Woody Woodard | 1957–1959 | 30 | 10 | 18 | 2 | .367 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Hank Foldberg | 1960–1961 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 0 | .762 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Marcelino Huerta$^†$ | 1962–1964 | 29 | 14 | 15 | 0 | .483 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | George Karras | 1965–1966 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 0 | .211 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | Boyd Converse | 1967 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | .250 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Eddie Kriwiel | 1968 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | Ben Wilson | 1969–1970 | 19 | 2 | 17 | 0 | .105 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Was killed in the Wichita State University football team plane crash on October 2, 1970 |
| 29 | Bob Seaman | 1971–1973 | 33 | 13 | 20 | 0 | .394 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 30 | Jim Wright | 1974–1978 | 55 | 17 | 37 | 1 | .318 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | Willie Jeffries$^†$ | 1979–1983 | 55 | 21 | 32 | 2 | .400 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | First African American head coach of an NCAA Division I-A football program Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010. |
| 32 | Ron Chismar | 1984–1986 | 33 | 8 | 25 | 0 | .242 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |