List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people explained

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

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, former 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.

Women's track and field

• Mike Kirkland, Women's coach. Undefeated at the conference level since named head coach in 1992.^[11]

Other

• John Salavantis, broadcaster and former coach at Ottawa University

See also

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.kshof.org/hof-profiles.cfm?record_id=25 Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
2. http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-arthur-schabinger.html Basketball Hall of Fame
3. https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800102377/bio Clarence Gilyard Biography - Yahoo! Movies
4. Web site: CONTENTdm.
5. http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HIEMSED01 Database Football
6. http://www.footballfoundation.org/news.php?id=2200 Football Foundation
7. http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LAWREROL01 Database Football
8. http://www.brownmackie.edu/bmHistory.aspx Brown Mackie College
9. Book: Dittmar, Joseph J.. Baseball's Benchmark Boxscores. 1990. McFarland & Co.. Jefferson, North Carolina. 0-89950-488-4. 32–34.
10. http://www.c-of-e.org/history.php College of Emporia Alumni Association, history
11. http://hovpen.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=153215 Hovpensports.com - Kirkland named Southwestern athletic director