# List of Ottawa Braves head football coaches

The Ottawa Braves program is a college football team that represents Ottawa University in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, a part of the NAIA. The team has had 29 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1901. The current coach is Nick Davis who first took the position for the 2022 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 |
| 1 | J. Nort Atkinson | 1901–1902 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | .684 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1903 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -— | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | Alpha Brumage | 1904–1907 | 31 | 14 | 16 | 1 | .468 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Norman G. Wann | 1908–1909 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | .633 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Oscar Dahlene | 1910 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .417 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Red Baughman | 1911 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | .357 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Floyd Daniel Hargiss | 1912 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Porter Craig | 1913–1914 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | .462 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Arthur Schabinger | 1915–1917 1919 | 30 | 9 | 17 | 4 | .367 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1918 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -— | - | - | - | - |
| 9 | Robert E. Brannan | 1920–1922 | 23 | 2 | 20 | 1 | .109 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Edwin Elbel | 1923–1927 | 42 | 14 | 21 | 7 | .417 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Archie W. Butcher | 1928–1929 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 2 | .188 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | John S. Davis | 1930 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | .111 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Charles Errickson | 1931–1935 | 40 | 18 | 21 | 1 | .463 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Dick Godlove | 1936–1942 | 56 | 37 | 13 | 6 | .714 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -— | - | - | - | - |
| 15 | Wally A. Forsberg | 1946–1948 | 28 | 20 | 6 | 2 | .750 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Richard Peters | 1949–1952 1957–1971 | 174 | 129 | 42 | 3 | .750 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Paul J. Andree | 1953–1955 | 27 | 12 | 14 | 1 | .463 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Grover Nutt | 1956 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Ben Moor | 1972–1975 | 37 | 18 | 19 | 0 | .486 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Don McLeary | 1976–1977 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | .556 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | John Salavantis | 1978 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | .700 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Nyle Salmans | 1979–1983 | 52 | 24 | 27 | 1 | .471 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Glenn Percy | 1984–1988 | 50 | 21 | 29 | 0 | .420 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Dave Dallas | 1989–1996 | 78 | 38 | 39 | 1 | .494 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | Chris Creighton | 1997–2000 | 41 | 32 | 9 | 0 | .780 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | Ronnie Jones | 2001 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | .600 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Patrick Ross | 2002–2003 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 0 | .667 | 14 | 4 | 0 | .778 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| 28 | Kent Kessinger | 2004–2021 | 193 | 108 | 85 | 0 | .560 | 96 | 67 | 0 | .589 | 2 | 4 | 3 | — |
| 29 | Nick Davis | 2022–present | 31 | 9 | 23 | 0 | .281 | 9 | 16 | 0 | .360 | - | - | 1 | — |