# List of Valparaiso Beacons head football coaches

The Valparaiso Beacons football program is a college football team that represents Valparaiso University in the Pioneer Football League, a part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The team has had 20 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1906, although records do not record a coach until 1919. Since December 2024 Andy Waddle has served as head coach at Valparaiso.

## 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

Statistics correct as of the end of the 2024 college football season.
| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | NCs |
| 0 | Unknown | 1906–1907 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | George Keogan | 1919–1920 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | .625 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Earl Goheen | 1921–1922 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | .542 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | William Shadoan | 1923–1924 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | .618 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Millard Anderson | 1925 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .143 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Conrad Moll | 1926 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .250 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Earl Scott | 1927–1928 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 0 | .154 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Jake Christiansen | 1929–1940 | 97 | 50 | 43 | 4 | .536 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Victor Dauer | 1941 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Loren Ellis | 1942 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | .500 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| X | No Team | 1943–1944 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Loren Ellis | 1945 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .857 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | Emory Bauer | 1946–1956 | 99 | 59 | 35 | 5 | .621 | 23 | 8 | 1 | .734 | — | 1 | 3 | — |
| 11 | Emory Bauer & Walt Reiner | 1957–1964 | 71 | 40 | 29 | 2 | .577 | 25 | 20 | 1 | .554 | — | — | 1 | — |
| 10 | Emory Bauer | 1965–1967 | 27 | 9 | 18 | 0 | .333 | 4 | 13 | 0 | .235 | — | — | 3 | — |
| 12 | Norm Amundsen | 1968–1976 | 87 | 44 | 40 | 3 | .523 | 21 | 24 | 0 | .467 | — | — | 2 | — |
| 13 | Bill Koch | 1977–1988 | 117 | 43 | 71 | 3 | .380 | 20 | 46 | 2 | .309 | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Tom Horne | 1989–2004 | 169 | 67 | 101 | 1 | .399 | 25 | 61 | 1 | .293 | — | — | 2 | — |
| 15 | Stacy Adams | 2005–2009 | 55 | 15 | 40 | 0 | .273 | 6 | 28 | 0 | .176 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Dale Carlson | 2010–2013 | 43 | 3 | 40 | 0 | .070 | 3 | 29 | 0 | .094 | — | — | — | — |
| Int | Mike Gravier (interim) | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | | — | — | — |
| 17 | Dave Cecchini | 2014–2018 | 55 | 17 | 38 | 0 | .309 | 13 | 27 | 0 | .325 | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Landon Fox | 2019–2024 | 63 | 21 | 42 | 0 | .333 | 16 | 26 | 0 | .381 | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Andy Waddle | 2025–present | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | — |