Jack Behringer
American sports coach (1925–2011)
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1925-05-13)May 13, 1925 Lima, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | October 5, 2011(2011-10-05) (aged 86) Grove City, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Alma mater | Defiance (1949) |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1946–1948 | Defiance |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1949 | Wooster HS (OH) |
1950 | Wooster (assistant) |
1956–1972 | Grove City |
Basketball | |
1950–1951 | Wooster (freshmen) |
1956–1957 | Grove City |
Baseball | |
1959–1988 | Grove City |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1957–1996 | Grove City |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 69–68–9 (college football) 12–6 (college basketball) |
R. Jack Behringer (May 13, 1925 – October 5, 2011) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach.
Behringer was a 1949 graduate of Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio.[1] After spending time as an assistant coach at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, Behringer began a long career in athletics Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He served as the school's head football coach from 1956 to 1972.[2] He also served as the head basketball coach at Grove City during the 1956–57 season,[3] but his longest coaching tenure was as Grove City's baseball coach, serving from 1959 to 1988.[4]
Head coaching record
College football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Grove City Wolverines (NAIA / NAIA Division II independent) (1956–1972) | |||||||||
1956 | Grove City | 0–8 | |||||||
1957 | Grove City | 5–3 | |||||||
1958 | Grove City | 5–2 | |||||||
1959 | Grove City | 3–5–1 | |||||||
1960 | Grove City | 2–4–3 | |||||||
1961 | Grove City | 5–4 | |||||||
1962 | Grove City | 6–3 | |||||||
1963 | Grove City | 4–4 | |||||||
1964 | Grove City | 4–5 | |||||||
1965 | Grove City | 4–4–1 | |||||||
1966 | Grove City | 8–0–1 | |||||||
1967 | Grove City | 6–3 | |||||||
1968 | Grove City | 7–2 | |||||||
1969 | Grove City | 3–4–1 | |||||||
1970 | Grove City | 5–3–1 | |||||||
1971 | Grove City | 2–6–1 | |||||||
1972 | Grove City | 0–8 | |||||||
Grove City: | 69–68–9 | ||||||||
Total: | 69–68–9 |
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References
- ^ "R. Jack Behringer". alliednews.com. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
- ^ "Jack Behringer". Grove City Wolverines. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
- ^ "Men's Basketball Records". Grove City Wolverines. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
- ^ "Baseball Year by Year Records". athletics.GCC.edu. Grove City College. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ "NCAA Statistics; Jack Behringer; Football". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ "Football Year-by-Year Records". Grove City College. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
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Grove City Wolverines head football coaches
- Morgan Barnes (1892)
- R. N. J. McKee (1893)
- Jesse Bruce (1894)
- Harold Weakley (1895)
- W. H. Maxwell (1896)
- Ernest Brown (1897)
- R. W. Cunningham (1898)
- George J. Cronenwett (1899)
- Charles Hamilton & George Lowrey (1900)
- George Lowrey (1901)
- Harold Weakley (1902)
- James Marshall (1903–1904)
- Charles Hamilton (1905)
- Herbert Harmon (1906–1907)
- William Rooke (1908)
- Herbert Harmon (1909–1913)
- William J. Young (1914)
- Herbert Harmon (1915)
- Howard Acher (1916)
- Harold O. White (1917–1918)
- Howard Acher (1919)
- Robert Thorn (1920)
- Guy Williamson (1921–1923)
- Charley Bowser (1924–1926)
- Charlie Berry (1927–1931)
- Bill Amos (1932–1936)
- Jim Loveless (1937–1942)
- No team (1943–1945)
- Jim Loveless (1946–1953)
- Al Pesek (1954)
- Jim Curry (1955)
- Jack Behringer (1956–1972)
- Joe Kopnisky (1973–1983)
- Chris Smith (1984–2015)
- Andrew DiDonato (2016– )