List of Stanford Cardinal head football coaches
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The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in the Pac-12 Conference. The Cardinal competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The team has had 32 head coaches since its founding in 1892. Troy Taylor is the current head coach.[1]
The Cardinal have played in 1,207 games of American football in 112 seasons.[A 1] In their first season, the team played 4 games with no head coach.[2] From 1906 to 1917, Stanford replaced football with rugby.[2] The school did not field teams in 1918 and from 1943 to 1945 due to World War I and World War II, respectively.[2]
Conference championships have been won by Pop Warner, Claude E. Thornhill, Clark Shaughnessy, Chuck Taylor, John Ralston, Bill Walsh, Tyrone Willingham, and David Shaw.[2] Shaw is the all-time leader in games coached and most victories, having won his 72nd game in a 17–14 win over Cal in the 120th Big Game on November 18, 2017.[3] James F. Lanagan is the leader in win percentage for coaches with more than one season of service.[2] Shaw was also the Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2017 respectively.[4]
Of the 31 Stanford head coaches, six—Walter Camp,[5] Fielding H. Yost,[6] Andrew Kerr,[7] Warner,[8] Shaughnessy,[9] and Ralston[10]—have been inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame as coaches. Four more—George H. Brooke (who played at Swarthmore),[11] Marchmont Schwartz (who played at Notre Dame),[12] Taylor (who played at Stanford)[13] and Paul Wiggin (who also played at Stanford)[14]—are in the Hall of Fame as players.