# List of Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes head football coaches

The Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes program is a college football team that represents Kansas Wesleyan University in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, a part of the NAIA. The team has had 20 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1903. The current coach is Myers Hendrickson, who assumed the role in early 2019. Hendrickson had been an assistant under the previous head coach Matt Drinkall who was hired in January 2014. Drinkall replaced coach Dave Dallas who first took the position for the 1997 season and resigned at the end of the 2013 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 |
| 0 | No coach | 1893, 1899–1902 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | .444 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1894–1898 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | Albert B. Cowden | 1903, 1905 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | .600 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1904 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | George Miller | 1906 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | C. L. Williams | 1908–1909 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | .643 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1910–1913 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | George R. Edwards | 1914, 1917 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 0 | .267 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | W. F. Ragle | 1915 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | .556 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | George Williams | 1916 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No team | 1918 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Ernest C. Quigley | 1919 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | J. Elwood Davis | 1920 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .333 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Alexander Brown Mackie | 1921–1937 | 126 | 73 | 40 | 13 | .631 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Gene Johnson | 1938–1942 | 44 | 19 | 16 | 9 | .534 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| X | No Team | 1943–1945 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Virgil Baer | 1946–1948 | 27 | 12 | 12 | 3 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Wally A. Forsberg | 1949–1951 | 28 | 11 | 16 | 1 | .411 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Gene Bissell | 1952–1961 1963–1978 | 162 | 76 | 81 | 5 | .485 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Daffin Backstrom | 1962 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | .167 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Ron Dupree | 1979–1980 1996 | 29 | 11 | 18 | 0 | .379 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Jon Bingesser | 1981–1984 | 40 | 13 | 26 | 1 | .338 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Jack Welch | 1985–1986 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | .400 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Brad Jenkins | 1987–1995 | 89 | 49 | 40 | 0 | .551 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Dave Dallas | 1997–2013 | 175 | 94 | 81 | 0 | .537 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Matt Drinkall | 2014–2018 | 59 | 42 | 17 | — | .712 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Myers Hendrickson | 2019–2021 | 35 | 31 | 4 | — | .886 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Matt Myers | 2022–present | 22 | 16 | 6 | — | .727 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |