Warren Powers

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Warren Powers
Date of birth	February 19, 1941 (age 66)
Place of birth	Kansas City, Missouri
Position(s)	Defensive Back
College	Nebraska
Statistics	DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
1963-1968	AFL Oakland Raiders

Warren Powers was the head coach of the Missouri Tigers football program from 1978 to 1984. Prior to coming to Missouri, Powers was an assistant coach under both Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne at Nebraska. He was an all-state high school quarterback from Kansas City, Missouri, and also played on Devaney's first team at Nebraska in 1962, earning three letters as a Husker.

Powers played safety for six years with the American Football League's Oakland Raiders. He started for the 1967 AFL Champion Raiders and in the second AFL-NFL World Championship game.

He had a one-year stint as head coach at Washington State before leaving to join the Tigers.

During his tenure at Mizzou, Powers compiled a 46-33-3(.579) record, including four straight bowl appearances from 1978 to 1981. His best seasons came in 1980 and 1981, where he posted back-to-back 8-4 records. In addition, his Tiger football teams went 3-2 in bowl games, defeating LSU in the 1978 Liberty Bowl, South Carolina in the Hall-Of-Fame Bowl in 1979, and Southern Miss in the 1981 Tangerine Bowl. Mizzou also played in the 1980 Liberty Bowl, a loss to Purdue and the 1983 Holiday Bowl, losing to a BYU Cougars squad, led by a then-future National Football League MVP for the Super Bowl XXIX winning San Francisco 49ers, Steve Young.

Since leaving the Tigers, Powers worked in a variety of sales and administrative jobs. For the past several years, he has been in executive sales at Bommarito Automotive in St. Louis. He currently heads the "One Nation" team as a Regional Vice President at Primerica Financial Services.

In 2002, Powers was head coach of the Show Me Believers, a National Indoor Football League team that played its games at the Family Arena in St. Charles, Missouri, about 20 miles west of St. Louis.

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• Other American Football League players

Preceded by Al Onofrio	University of Missouri Head Football Coach 1978–1984	Succeeded by Woody Widenhofer
Preceded by Lou Holtz	Walter Camp Coach of the Year 1978	Succeeded by John Mackovic