# List of Maine Black Bears head football coaches

The Maine Black Bears college football team represents the University of Maine in the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference (CAAFC), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had 37 head coaches since it began play during the 1892 season. Since December 2021, Jordan Stevens has served as head coach at Maine.
Five coaches have led Maine in postseason playoff or bowl games: Harold Westerman, Tim Murphy, Tom Lichtenberg, Jack Cosgrove, Joe Harasymiak. Eighteen coaches have won conference championships: Edward N. Robinson, Frank McCoy, Edgar Wingard, and Tommy Hughitt each had won one; John Wells Farley, Thomas J. Riley, and James A. Baldwin each won two; Harold Westerman won seven; and Fred Brice won nine as a member of the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association. George E. Allen and William C. Kenyon each won one and Brice won six as a member of the New England Conference. David M. Nelson, Walter Abbott, Ron Rogerson, Murphy, and Lichtenberg each won one, and Westerman won four as a member of the Yankee Conference. Cosgrove won two as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, and Cosgrove and Harasymiak each won one as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association.
Cosgrove is the leader in seasons coached, with 23 years as head coach and in games coached (263) and won (128). Riley has the highest winning percentage of those who have coaced more than one game at 0.781. Chesley Johnston and Wildes Veazie have the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with 0.000. Of the 37 different head coaches who have led the Black Bears, Edward N. Robinson has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

## 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

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
| 1 | Chesley Johnston | 1892 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 2 | Wildes Veazie | 1893 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3 | P. Folsom | 1895 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.200 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4 | Jack Abbott | 1896 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0.333 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0.300 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5 | Harry Orman Robinson | 1897 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.333 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6 | Jim Coombs | 1898 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.200 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7 | W. B. Hopkins | 1899 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0.400 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0.400 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8 | Ernest Burton | 1900 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.500 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9 | John Wells Farley | 1901 1903 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0.750 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 10 | Edward N. Robinson$^†$ | 1902 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0.750 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 11 | Emmett O. King | 1904 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0.556 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12 | Frank McCoy | 1905–1908 | 32 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 0.453 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0.542 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 13 | George Schildmiller | 1909 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0.438 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.333 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14 | Edgar Wingard | 1910–1911 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0.750 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 15 | Thomas J. Riley | 1912–1913 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0.781 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 16 | Eddie Cochems | 1914 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0.667 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17 | Tommy Hughitt | 1915–1916 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0.469 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 18 | Thomas A. McCann | 1917 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0.250 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.500 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19 | Donald R. Aldworth | 1918 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.750 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20 | James A. Baldwin | 1919–1920 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0.679 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0.917 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 21 | Fred Brice | 1921–1940 | 146 | 79 | 58 | 9 | 0.572 | 63 | 36 | 9 | 0.625 | – | – | – | – | 15 | 0 | – |
| 22 | George E. Allen | 1941 1946–1948 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 0.571 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 0.560 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 23 | William C. Kenyon | 1942 1944–1945 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0.267 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0.300 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 24 | Samuel Sezak | 1943 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25 | David M. Nelson | 1949–1950 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0.571 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0.615 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 26 | Harold Westerman | 1951–1966 | 124 | 80 | 38 | 7 | 0.668 | 73 | 34 | 7 | 0.671 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | – |
| 27 | Walter Abbott | 1967–1975 | 80 | 27 | 53 | 0 | 0.338 | 15 | 32 | 0 | 0.319 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 28 | Jack Bicknell | 1976–1980 | 54 | 18 | 35 | 1 | 0.343 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 0.180 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29 | Ron Rogerson | 1981–1984 | 43 | 19 | 23 | 1 | 0.453 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0.300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 30 | Buddy Teevens | 1985–1986 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0.591 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0.417 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 31 | Tim Murphy | 1987–1988 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0.652 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0.667 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 32 | Tom Lichtenberg | 1989 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0.750 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0.750 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 33 | Kirk Ferentz | 1990–1992 | 33 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 0.364 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0.333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34 | Jack Cosgrove | 1993–2015 | 263 | 128 | 135 | 0 | 0.487 | 89 | 97 | 0 | 0.478 | 3 | 5 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | – |
| 35 | Joe Harasymiak | 2016–2018 | 35 | 20 | 15 | – | 0.571 | 15 | 9 | – | 0.625 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 0 | – |
| 36 | Nick Charlton | 2019–2021 | 27 | 14 | 13 | – | 0.519 | 10 | 10 | – | 0.500 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37 | Jordan Stevens | 2022–present | 34 | 9 | 25 | – | 0.265 | 6 | 18 | – | 0.250 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |