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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No. | Order of coaches [A 2] | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties [A 3] | C% | Conference winning percentage | ||
† | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage [A 4] |
No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | DC | CC | NC |
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1 | James Robert Lincoln Diggs | 1900–1901 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.500 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
2 | Frank C. Dickey | 1902 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.500 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
3 | Henry E. Barco | 1903, 1911–1912 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0.313 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
4 | John W. Barco | 1904–1907 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0.433 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
5 | Wessley A. Stevens | 1908–1910 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0.250 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
6 | James E. Garner | 1913–1914 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0.571 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – |
7 | S. M. F. Fisher | 1915–1916 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0.556 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.200 | – | – | – | – | – |
8 | Wesley A. Daniel | 1917 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | – |
9 | H. L. Harris | 1918 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.750 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | – |
10 | Henry B. Hucles | 1919–1920, 1926–1942 | 161 | 92 | 51 | 18 | 0.627 | 70 | 44 | 16 | 0.600 | – | – | – | – | – |
11 | Harold D. Martin | 1921–1923 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 0.841 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0.917 | – | – | – |
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12 | Thomas W. Harvey | 1924–1925 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0.607 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | – |
13 | Sam B. Taylor | 1945–1948 | 37 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 0.527 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 0.383 | – | – | – | – | – |
14 | Bernard Smith | 1949 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – |
15 | Thomas Harris | 1950–1970 | 186 | 98 | 83 | 5 | 0.540 | 86 | 77 | 4 | 0.527 | – | – | – | – | – |
16 | Willard Bailey | 1971–1983, 1995–2003 | 236 | 157 | 73 | 6 | 0.678 | 111 | 44 | 5 | 0.709 | 0 | 5 |
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17 | Joe Taylor | 1984–1991 | 82 | 60 | 19 | 3 | 0.750 | 39 | 12 | 2 | 0.755 | 0 | 3 |
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18 | Richard Macon & Willie Spence | 1992 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0.389 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | – |
19 | Henry Lattimore | 1993–1994 | 21 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 0.167 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0.219 | – | – | – | – | – |
20 | Arrington Jones | 2004–2007 | 42 | 21 | 21 | – | 0.500 | 16 | 13 | – | 0.552 | – | – |
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21 | Gregory Richardson | 2008 | 10 | 5 | 5 | – | 0.500 | 3 | 4 | – | 0.429 | – | – | – | – | – |
22 | Michael Bailey | 2009–2013 | 50 | 22 | 28 | – | 0.440 | 17 | 18 | – | 0.486 | – | – |
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23 | Mark James | 2014–2017 | 40 | 26 | 14 | – | 0.650 | 20 | 8 | – | 0.714 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – |
24 | Alvin Parker | 2018–present | 52 | 39 | 13 | – | 0.750 | 29 | 7 | – | 0.806 | 0 | 2 |
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