List of San Jose State Spartans head football coaches

The

Division I

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The program has had 29 different

John Ralston, Dick Tomey and Brent Brennan. Many former players who were taught by these innovate coaches have gone on to become some of the greatest football coaches of all time including Bill Walsh, Dick Vermeil and Terry Donahue

Coaches

No.	Coach	Tenure	Seasons	Win	Loss	Tie	Pct.	Bowls	Awards
1	James E. Addicott	1893–1898	5	6	6	4	.500	0
2	Jess Woods	1899	1	5	2	1	.643	0
3	James E. Addicott (totals included on line 1)	1900
4	Fielding Yost	1900	0	1	0	0	1.000	0
5	David Wooster	1921–1922	2	3	10	1	.250	0
6	Hovey C. McDonald	1923	1	0	6	0	.000	0
7	Ernesto R. Knollin	1924–1928	5	13	22	2	.378	0
8	Mush Crawford	1929–1931	3	6	14	4	.333	0
9	Dudley DeGroot	1932–1939	8	60	19	8	.736	0
10	Ben Winkelman	1940–1941	2	16	4	3	.761	0
11	Glenn Hartranft	1942	1	7	2	0	.778	0
12	Wilbur V. Hubbard	1946–1949	4	36	11	1	.761	2
13	Bob Bronzan	1950–1956	7	32	30	5	.515	0
14	Bob Titchenal	1957–1964	8	33	45	1	.424	0
15	Harry Anderson	1965–1968	4	13	26	0	.333	0
16	Joe McMullen	1969–1970	1.33	3	10	0	.231	0
17	Dewey King	1970–1972	2.67	10	20	1	.339	1
18	Darryl Rogers	1973–1975	3	22	9	3	.691	0
19	Lynn Stiles	1976–1978	3	18	16	0	.529	0
20	Jack Elway	1979–1983	5	35	20	1	.634	1
21	Claude Gilbert	1984–1989	5	38	30	1	.558	2
22	Terry Shea	1990–1991	2	15	6	2	.696	1	Big West Coach of the Year (1990)
23	Ron Turner	1992	1	7	4	0	.636	0
24	John Ralston	1993–1996	4	11	34	0	.244	0
25	Dave Baldwin	1997–2000	4	18	27	0	.400	0
26	Fitz Hill	2001–2004	4	14	33	0	.298	0
27	Dick Tomey	2005–2009	5	25	35	0	.417	1
28	Mike MacIntyre	2010–2012	3	16	21	0	.432	0
29	Kent Baer	2012	0	1	0	0	1.000	1
30	Ron Caragher	2013–2016	4	19	30	0	.388	1
31	Brent Brennan	2017–2023	6	34	48	0	.415	3	MWC Coach of the Year (2020)
32	Ken Niumatalolo	2024–present	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Totals	1893–2024	104	517	540	38	.489	13

v t e San Jose State Spartans football
Venues	CEFCU Stadium (1933–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Fresno State: Battle for the Valley Hawaii: Dick Tomey Legacy Game Pacific: Battle for the Victor's Bell Stanford: Bill Walsh Legacy Game
Media	Radio: KDOW KSJS KTRB
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896–1897 1898 1899 1900 1901–1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

v t e Head football coaches of the Mountain West Conference
Troy Calhoun (Air Force) Boise State ) Colorado State ) Jeff Tedford (Fresno State) Timmy Chang (Hawaii) Nevada ) New Mexico ) Sean Lewis (San Diego State) Ken Niumatalolo (San Jose State) Barry Odom (UNLV) Utah State ) Wyoming )
# denotes interim head coach