Dick Zornes Explained

Dick Zornes
Birth Place:15 June 1944
Player Years1:1963–1966
Player Team1:Eastern Washington State
Player Positions:Safety, fullback
Coach Years1:1967
Coach Team1:Eastern Washington State (SA)
Coach Years2:1968
Coach Team2:Hawaii (assistant)
Coach Years3:1970s
Coach Team3:Montana Tech (assistant)
Coach Years4:1970s
Coach Team4:BC Lions (assistant)
Coach Years5:1977–1978
Coach Team5:Columbia Basin
Coach Years6:1979–1993
Coach Team6:Eastern Washington
Admin Years1:1990–1993
Admin Team1:Eastern Washington
Admin Years2:1997–1999
Admin Team2:Eastern Washington
Overall Record:89–66–2 (college)
17–3 (junior college)
Tournament Record:1–2 (NCAA D-I-AA playoffs)
Championships:1 NWCCC (1978)
1 Big Sky (1992)
1 NWCCC Eastern Division (1977)
1 NWCCC Southern Division (1978)

Dick Zornes (born June 15, 1944) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at Eastern Washington University in Cheney from 1979 to 1993, compiling a record. Zornes also served two stints as the athletic director at Eastern Washington, from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999. A native of Vancouver, Washington, he played college football at Eastern Washington—then Eastern Washington State College—from 1963 to 1966 as a safety and fullback for the Savages, then an NAIA program in the Evergreen Conference.

Zornes continued at his alma mater in 1967 as a student coach under Dave Holmes and moved with Holmes to the University of Hawaii in 1968. Zornes was later an assistant coach at Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology—now known as Montana Technological University—in Butte and with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was hired as the head coach at Columbia Basin College, a junior college in Pasco, Washington, in 1977. In two seasons at Columbia Basin he tallied a mark of 17–3.[1]

Head coaching record

Junior college

Notes and References

  1. News: . December 12, 1990 . Zornes new Eastern athletic director . . . April 25, 2016 .