• Source: List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people

    • 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.
    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.


    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
    Homer Woodson Hargiss, inventor of the huddle
    Lem Harkey, San Francisco 49ers
    Harold S. Herd, (also track & field) Kansas Supreme Court Justice
    Ed Hiemstra, offensive lineman for the New York Giants
    Ted Kessinger 2010 inductee in College Football Hall of Fame
    Jerry Kill, former head coach for the University of Minnesota
    Rolland Lawrence, cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons from 1973 to 1980.
    Jay Mack Love member of the National Champion 1904 Michigan Wolverines football team
    Alexander Brown Mackie, founder of Brown Mackie College
    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
    Bill Schnebel, named the 1960 "Little All-American Coach of the Year" and NAIA coach of the year.


    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.


    Other


    John Salavantis, broadcaster and former coach at Ottawa University


    See also



    Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
    Lists of people from Kansas


    References

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