List of Virginia Union Panthers head football coaches

The Virginia Union Panthers football team represents Virginia Union University in college football. The team competes at the NCAA Division II level as a member of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA). The program has had 24 head coaches since it began to play during the 1899 college football season. Since the start of the 2018 season, Alvin Parker has served as head coach of the Panthers.

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Coaches + List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards No. Name Season(s) GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL DC CC NC 1 James Robert Lincoln Diggs 1900–1901 6 3 3 0 – – – – – – – – – 2 Frank C. Dickey 1902 2 1 1 0 – – – – – – – – – 3 Henry E. Barco 1903, 1911–1912 8 2 5 1 – – – – – – – – – 4 John W. Barco 1904–1907 15 5 7 3 – – – – – – – – – 5 Wessley A. Stevens 1908–1910 10 7 1 – – – – – – – – – 6 James E. Garner 1913–1914 7 4 3 0 0 3 0 – – – – – 7 S. M. F. Fisher 1915–1916 9 5 4 0 1 4 0 – – – – – 8 Wesley A. Daniel 1917 4 4 0 0 2 0 0 – – – – – 9 H. L. Harris 1918 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 – – – – – 10 Henry B. Hucles 1919–1920, 1926–1942 161 92 51 18 70 44 16 – – – – – 11 Harold D. Martin 1921–1923 22 17 2 3 11 1 0 – – – 2 CIAA (1921, 1923) 1 black national championship (1923) 12 Thomas W. Harvey 1924–1925 14 7 4 6 4 2 – – – – – 13 Sam B. Taylor 1945–1948 37 19 17 1 11 18 1 – – – – – 14 Bernard Smith 1949 8 0 8 0 0 7 0 – – – – – 15 Thomas Harris 1950–1970 186 98 83 5 86 77 4 – – – – – 16 Willard Bailey 1971–1983, 1995–2003 236 157 73 6 111 44 5 0 5 3 CIAA Northern Division (1981–1983) 3 CIAA Eastern Division (2000–2001, 2003) 6 CIAA (1973, 1979, 1981–1983, 2001) – 17 Joe Taylor 1984–1991 82 60 19 3 39 12 2 0 3 2 CIAA Northern Division (1986, 1990) 1 CIAA (1986) – 18 Richard Macon & Willie Spence 1992 9 3 5 1 3 2 1 – – – – – 19 Henry Lattimore 1993–1994 21 3 17 1 3 12 1 – – – – – 20 Arrington Jones 2004–2007 42 21 21 – 16 13 – – – 1 CIAA Eastern Division (2007) – – 21 Gregory Richardson 2008 10 5 5 – 3 4 – – –– – – 22 Michael Bailey 2009–2013 50 22 28 – 17 18 – – – 1 CIAA Eastern Division (2009) – – 23 Mark James 2014–2017 40 26 14 – 20 8 – 0 1– – – 24 Alvin Parker 2018–present 79 59 20 – 42 9 – 2 4 1 CIAA Northern Division (2023) 2 CIAA (2023, 2024) –

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