# List of Allegheny Gators head football coaches

The Allegheny Gators football program is a college football team that represents Allegheny College in the North Coast Athletic Conference, a part of the Division III (NCAA). The team has had 36 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1893. The current coach is Braden Layer who first took the position for the 2023 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 |
| 0 | No coach | 1893–1894, 1896 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | .273 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1895 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | Charles N. Crosby | 1897 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Martin Smallwood | 1898 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Alonzo G. Brown | 1899 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | .727 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Fred E. Heckel | 1900 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .625 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Edward N. Eisenberg | 1901 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | .542 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | William C. Whelan | 1902 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | .700 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Walter E. Bachman | 1903 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Branch Rickey | 1904–1905 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 | .381 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Clifford B. Lewis | 1906 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | .222 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Herbert Sheetz | 1907–1908 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | E. J. Stewart | 1909–1910 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | .538 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | David L. Dunlap | 1911–1912 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | .375 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Charles Hammett | 1913–1917, 1919 | 42 | 29 | 9 | 4 | .738 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Carl A. Gilbert | 1918 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .667 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Clarence Applegran | 1920 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | .357 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Herb McCracken$^†$ | 1921–1923 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 1 | .660 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Tom Davies$^†$ | 1924–1925 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | .667 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Mel Merritt | 1926–1928 | 25 | 8 | 15 | 2 | .360 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Harry W. Crum | 1929–1931 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 4 | .640 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Waldo S. Tippin | 1932–1934 | 19 | 3 | 14 | 2 | .211 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Karl J. Lawrence | 1935–1940 | 42 | 11 | 27 | 4 | .310 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Alfred C. Werner | 1941–1942 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | .167 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1943–1945 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Bob Garbark | 1946 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .143 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Bill Daddio | 1947–1951 | 37 | 14 | 18 | 5 | .446 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | David C. Henderson | 1952–1953 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 0 | .125 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | William R. Moore | 1954–1957 | 32 | 11 | 19 | 2 | .375 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | John R. Chuckran | 1958–1969 | 90 | 51 | 37 | 2 | .578 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
| 28 | Sam T. Timer | 1970–1983 | 115 | 60 | 52 | 3 | .535 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
| 29 | Bob Wolfe | 1984–1985 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0 | .300 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 30 | Peter Vaas | 1986–1989 | 41 | 29 | 11 | 1 | .720 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| 31 | Ken O'Keefe | 1990–1997 | 90 | 79 | 10 | 1 | .883 | — | — | — | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 32 | Blair Hrovat | 1998–2001 | 40 | 26 | 14 | 0 | .650 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 33 | Mark Matlak | 2002–2015 | 121 | 62 | 79 | 0 | .440 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| 34 | B. J. Hammer | 2016–2018 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 0 | .333 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 35 | Rich Nagy | 2019–2022 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 0 | .333 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 36 | Braden Layer | 2023–present | 20 | 4 | 16 | 0 | .200 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |