List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people

The following is a list of notable people associated with the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Basketball

Men's basketball

• Gene Johnson, assistant coach for USA Basketball in the 1936 Olympic Games
• Art Kahler, only person to coach at two different major colleges at the same time - head basketball coach at Brown University and football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.^[1]
• Brad Long, actor who portrayed team captain "Buddy Walker" in the 1986 film Hoosiers
• Arthur Schabinger, enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1961.^[2]

Football

• Willis Bates, former KCAC football coach who also coached the Auburn Tigers
• Vic Baltzell, linebacker for the Boston Redskins in 1935
• Harold Elliott, head coach with over 200 career wins
• Dennis Franchione, former head coach of Alabama and Texas A&M
• Mike Gardner, current coach at Tabor, achieved post-season play in each of his first five years as a head coach
• Clarence Gilyard, actor^[3]
• Homer Woodson Hargiss, inventor of the huddle^[4]
• Lem Harkey, San Francisco 49ers
• Harold S. Herd, (also track & field) Kansas Supreme Court Justice
• Ed Hiemstra, offensive lineman for the New York Giants ^[5]
• Ted Kessinger 2010 inductee in College Football Hall of Fame^[6]
• Jerry Kill, current head coach for the University of Minnesota
• Rolland Lawrence, cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons from 1973 to 1980.^[7]
• Jay Mack Love member of the National Champion 1904 Michigan Wolverines football team
• Alexander Brown Mackie, founder of Brown Mackie College^[8]
• Michael P. McCarthy, youngest General Manager ever to win a Canadian Football League championship with the Toronto Argonauts
• John H. Outland, namesake of the Outland Trophy awarded annually to the best college interior lineman
• Ernie Quigley, umpire of six World Series^[9]
• Bill Schnebel, named the 1960 "Little All-American Coach of the Year" and NAIA coach of the year.^[10]

Track and field

Men's track and field

• Jim Helmer, elected to the NAIA Coach's Hall of Fame in 2001.^[11]

Women's track and field

• Mike Kirkland, Women's coach. Undefeated at the conference level since named head coach in 1992.^[12]

Other

• John Salavantis, broadcaster and former coach at Ottawa University

See also

• Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
• Lists of people from Kansas

References