# List of Elon Phoenix head football coaches

The Elon Phoenix football program is a college football team that represents Elon University in the Colonial Athletic Association Football Conference (CAAFC), a part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The team has had 21 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1909. Since December 2018, Tony Trisciani has served as head coach at Elon.

## 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 | Reddy Rowe | 1909 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0.800 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 2 | Jack Johnson | 1919 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.333 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 3 | Frank Corboy | 1920–1925 | 51 | 17 | 31 | 3 | 0.363 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 4 | A. R. Van Cleave | 1926 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – |
| 5 | Peahead Walker | 1927–1936 | 88 | 44 | 41 | 3 | 0.517 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | – |
| 6 | Horace Hendrickson | 1937–1941 | 44 | 31 | 12 | 1 | 0.716 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0.815 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 7 | Hap Perry | 1946–1947 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0.425 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0.269 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8 | James Mallory | 1948–1952 | 49 | 28 | 18 | 3 | 0.602 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 0.571 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9 | Sid Varney | 1953–1959 | 62 | 24 | 36 | 2 | 0.403 | 17 | 21 | 2 | 0.450 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10 | George Tucker | 1960–1964 | 50 | 29 | 20 | 1 | 0.590 | 18 | 12 | 1 | 0.597 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | – |
| 11 | Gary Mattocks | 1965–1966 | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0.150 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0.071 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12 | Shirley Wilson | 1967–1976 | 108 | 72 | 34 | 2 | 0.676 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 0.778 | 2 | 3 | – | – | 6 | 0 | – |
| 13 | Jerry Tolley | 1977–1981 | 62 | 49 | 11 | 2 | 0.806 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 0.786 | 8 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 2 – 1980 1981 | NAIA Division I Coach of the Year (1980) |
| 14 | Wright Anderson | 1982–1983 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0.700 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0.643 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15 | Macky Carden | 1984–1988 | 51 | 34 | 17 | 0 | 0.667 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 0.657 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16 | Leon Hart | 1989–1995 | 74 | 37 | 37 | 0 | 0.500 | 23 | 26 | 0 | 0.469 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17 | Al Seagraves | 1996–2003 | 89 | 40 | 49 | – | 0.449 | 7 | 11 | – | 0.389 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18 | Paul Hamilton | 2004–2005 | 20 | 6 | 14 | – | 0.300 | 2 | 12 | – | 0.143 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19 | Pete Lembo | 2006–2010 | 57 | 35 | 22 | – | 0.614 | 24 | 14 | – | 0.632 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20 | Jason Swepson | 2011–2013 | 34 | 10 | 24 | – | 0.294 | 5 | 19 | – | 0.208 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21 | Rich Skrosky | 2014–2016 | 34 | 7 | 27 | – | 0.206 | 4 | 20 | – | 0.167 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22 | Curt Cignetti | 2017–2018 | 23 | 14 | 9 | – | 0.609 | 10 | 5 | – | 0.667 | 0 | 2 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23 | Tony Trisciani | 2019–present | 63 | 32 | 31 | – | 0.508 | 26 | 18 | – | 0.591 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – |