Bill Russo (American football)

Bill Russo
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football
Born	(1947-06-19) June 19, 1947
Alma mater	Brown University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1969–1977	Brown (assistant)
1978–1980	Wagner
1981–1999	Lafayette
Head coaching record
Overall	118–113–4
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3 Patriot (1988, 1992, 1994)
Awards
Eddie Robinson Award (1988) ECAC Coach of the Year (1981) AFCA Kodak Coach of the Year (1981)

Bill Russo (born June 19, 1947) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football at for Wagner College from 1978 to 1980 and at Lafayette College from 1981 to 1999. In 23 seasons as a head coach, Russo compiled a 118–113–4 overall record.^[1] In 1988, 1992 and 1994 Russo coached the Lafayette Leopards to outright Patriot League conference titles. Russo received the Eddie Robinson Award in 1988, which is given annually to the nation's top coach in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Russo's 103 wins at Lafayette are the most of any head coach in the program's history.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	NCAA^#
Wagner Seahawks (NCAA Division III independent) (1978–1980)
1978	Wagner	2–8
1979	Wagner	5–5
1980	Wagner	8–2
Wagner:		15–15
Lafayette Leopards (NCAA Division I-AA independent) (1981–1985)
1981	Lafayette	9–2			8
1982	Lafayette	7–3			20
1983	Lafayette	6–5
1984	Lafayette	5–5
1985	Lafayette	6–5
Lafayette Leopards (Patriot League) (1986–1999)
1986	Lafayette	6–5	2–2	T–2nd
1987	Lafayette	4–7	2–3	4th
1988	Lafayette	8–2–1	5–0	1st
1989	Lafayette	5–5	2–2	T–2nd
1990	Lafayette	4–7	1–4	5th
1991	Lafayette	6–5	3–2	T–2nd
1992	Lafayette	8–3	5–0	1st
1993	Lafayette	5–4–2	3–1–1	2nd
1994	Lafayette	5–6	5–0	1st
1995	Lafayette	4–6–1	3–2	3rd
1996	Lafayette	5–5	2–2	4th
1997	Lafayette	3–8	2–4	T–4th
1998	Lafayette	3–8	3–3	T–3rd
1999	Lafayette	4–7	2–4	T–5th
Lafayette:		103–98–4	40–29–1
Total:		118–113–4
National championship Conference title Conference division title
^#Rankings from final NCAA Poll.

References

↑ DeLassus, David. "Bill Russo Records by Year". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved November 12, 2010.

External links

Bill Russo at the College Football Data Warehouse

Wagner Seahawks head football coaches

Randolph Faries & Lucien Kempf (1927) Ray Kirchmeyer (1928–1932) Frank Spotts (1933–1936) Ray Kirchmeyer (1937–1941) No team (1942–1945) Ray Kirchmeyer (1946) Jim Lee Howell (1947–1953) Bunny Barbes (1954–1956) Mickey Sullivan (1957–1961) Robert C. Hicks (1962–1977) Bill Russo (1978–1980) Walt Hameline (1981–2014) Jason Houghtaling (2015– )

Lafayette Leopards head football coaches

No coach (1882–1890)
Wallace Moyle (1891–1892)
P. G. Haskell & H. H. Vincent (1893)
Hugh Janeway & H. H. Vincent (1894)
Parke H. Davis (1895–1897)
Samuel B. Newton (1898–1901)
Dave Fultz (1902)
Alfred E. Bull (1903–1907)
George Barclay (1908)
Bob Folwell (1909–1910)
Bob Folwell & Samuel B. Newton (1911)
George McCaa (1912–1913)
Wilmer Crowell (1914–1916)
Punk Berryman (1917)
L. A. Cobbett (1918)
Jock Sutherland (1919–1923)
Herb McCracken (1924–1935)
Ernie Nevers (1936)
Edward Mylin (1937–1942)
Ben Wolfson (1943–1945)
Edward Mylin (1946)
Ivy Williamson (1947–1948)
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1949–1951)
Steve Hokuf (1952–1957)
James McConlogue (1958–1962)
Kenneth Bunn (1963–1966)
Harry Gamble (1967–1970)
Neil Putnam (1971–1980)
Bill Russo (1981–1999)
Frank Tavani (2000–2016)
Micky Fein (2017–)

Eddie Robinson Award winners

1987: Duffner
1988: Russo
1989: Russell
1990: McDowell
1991: Ault
1992: Taaffe
1993: Allen
1994: Tressel
1995: Nutt
1996: Barbier
1997: Talley
1998: Johnson
1999: Matthews
2000: Glenn
2001: Lembo
2002: Tate
2003: Ayers
2004: Kill
2005: McDonnell
2006: Moore
2007: Farley
2008: Matthews
2009: Frazier
2010: Samuel
2011: Ambrose
2012: Bohl
2013: Bohl
2014: McDonnell
2015: Moglia
2016: Keeler

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