List of Montana Grizzlies head football coaches

The Montana Grizzlies football program is a college football team that represents the University of Montana in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Big Sky Conference. This is a list of the program's head coaches since the program's inception in 1897.^[1]

Coach	Alma mater	Year(s)	W	L	T	%
Fred D. Smith	Cornell	1897	1	2	3	.333
Benjamin F. Searight	Stanford	1898	3	2	0	.600
Guy Cleveland	Montana	1899	1	2	0	.333
Frank Bean	Wisconsin	1900–1901	2	4	0	.333
Dewitt Peck	Iowa State	1902	0	3	0	.000
Hiram Conibear	Illinois	1903–1904	5	7	0	.416
Frederick Schule	Wisconsin	1905–1906	4	7	0	.363
Albion Findlay	Wisconsin	1907	4	1	1	.800
Roy White	Iowa	1908–1909	7	2	2	.777
Robert H. Cary	Montana	1910–1911	5	3	1	.625
Wallace Philoon	West Point	1912	4	3	0	.571
A. George Heilman	Franklin & Marshall	1913–1914	9	4	1	.679
Jerry Nissen	Washington State	1915–1917	7	7	3	.500
Bernie Bierman	Minnesota	1919–1921	9	9	3	.500
John W. Stewart	Geneva	1922–1923	7	8	0	.466
Earl Clark	Montana	1924–1925	7	8	1	.466
Frank W. Milburn	West Point	1926–1930	18	22	3	.450
Bunny Oakes	Illinois	1931–1934	8	22	1	.266
Doug Fessenden	Illinois	1935–1941	32	25	4	.561
Clyde Carpenter	Montana	1942	0	8	0	.000
George Dahlberg	Montana	1945	1	4	0	.200
Doug Fessenden	Illinois	1946–1948	14	15	0	.482
Ted Shipkey	Stanford	1949–1951	12	16	0	.428
Ed Chinske	Montana	1952–1954	8	18	1	.307
Jerry Williams	Washington State	1955–1957	6	23	0	.206
Ray Jenkins	Colorado	1958–1963	14	43	0	.245
Hugh Davidson	Colorado	1964–1966	8	20	0	.285
Jack Swarthout	Montana	1967–1975	51	41	1	.554
Gene Carlson	Montana	1976–1979	16	25	0	.390
Larry Donovan	Nebraska	1980–1985	25	37	1	.403
Don Read	Sacramento State	1986–1995	85	36	0	.702
Mick Dennehy	Montana	1996–1999	39	12	0	.756
Joe Glenn	South Dakota	2000–2002	39	6	0	.867
Bobby Hauck	Montana	2003–2009	80	17	0	.825
Robin Pflugrad	Portland State	2010–2012	13	7	0	.650
Mick Delaney	UM-Western	2012–2014	24	14	0	.632
Bob Stitt	Doane College	2015–2017	21	14	0	.583
Bobby Hauck	Montana	2018–present	36	17	0	.679

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v t e Montana Grizzlies football
Venues	Dornblaser Field (I) (1912–1967) Naranche Stadium (alternate (Butte), 1938–1950) Dornblaser Field (II) (1968–1986) Washington–Grizzly Stadium (1986–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Eastern Washington: EWU–UM Governors Cup Idaho: Little Brown Stein Montana State
Culture and lore	Monte "Up With Montana" University of Montana Grizzly Marching Band
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
National championship seasons in bold