OAC Names Award for Larry Kehres

The Ohio Athletic Conference has announced that its annual football coach of the year award will now be named in honor of former Mount Union head football coach and director of athletics Larry Kehres.
The OAC Athletics Council, which includes the athletic directors, senior women’s administrators and faculty athletics representatives from all 10 member schools, voted October 29 to rename the award the Larry Kehres OAC Football Coach of the Year Award.
Kehres worked at Mount Union for 46 years (1974-2020) and was head football coach for 27 of those years building one of the most successful football programs in college football history. His teams won 23 OAC titles with 21 undefeated seasons and 11 NCAA Division III National Championships. He leads all levels of college football with a .929 winning percentage as he went 332-24-3 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2017.
He was named OAC Coach of the Year a record six times. Dave Mauer of Wittenberg and Lee Tressel of Baldwin Wallace both won the award five times.
OAC Coach of the Year – All-Time Winners
2019 – Tim Doup, Otterbein
2018 – Vince Kehres, Mount Union
2017 – Andy Waddle, Marietta
2016 – Tom Arth, John Carroll
2015 – Dean Paul, Ohio Northern
2014 – Vince Kehres, Mount Union
2013 – Tom Arth, John Carroll and Vince Kehres, Mount Union
2012 – Tim Doup, Otterbein
2011 – Mike Hallett, Heidelberg
2010 – Dean Paul, Ohio Northern
2009 – Al Logan, Muskingum
2008 – Joe Loth, Otterbein
2007 – Mike Hallett, Heidelberg
2006 – John Snell, Baldwin Walalce and Jim Collins, Capital
2005 – Joe Loth, Otterbein
2004 – Todd Glaser, Marietta
2003 – Jim Collins, Capital
2002 – Regis Scafe, John Carroll and John Snell, Baldwin Wallace
2001 – Jim Collins, Capital
2000 – Wally Hood, Otterbein
1999 – Tom Kaczkowski, Ohio Northern
1998 – Bob Packard, Baldwin Wallace
1997 – Tony DeCarlo, John Carroll and Larry Kehres, Mount Union
1996 – Larry Kehres, Mount Union
1993 – Dick West, Heidelberg
1992 – Larry Kehres, Mount Union
1991 – Bob Packard, Baldwin Wallace
1990 – Larry Kehres, Mount Union
1989 – Jeff Heacock, Muskingum
1988 – Dick West, Heidelberg
1987 – Roger Welsh, Capital
1986 – Larry Kehres, Mount Union
1985 – Ken Wable, Mount Union
1984 – Bob Packard, Baldwin Wallace
1983 – Jeff Heacock, Muskingum
1982 – Ken Wable, Mount Union and Wally Hood, Ohio Northern
1981 – Tom McHugh, Kenyon
1980 – Lee Tressel, Baldwin Wallace
1979 – Dave Mauer, Wittenberg
1978 – Lee Tressel, Baldwin Wallace and Dave Mauer, Wittenberg
1977 – Lee Tressel, Baldwin Wallace
1976 – Dave Mauer, Wittenberg
1975 – Al Christopher, Muskingum
1974 – Lee Tressel, Baldwin Wallace
1973 – Dave Mauer, Wittenberg
1972 – Pete Riesen, Heidelberg
1971 – Jack Fouts, Ohio Wesleyan
1970 – Gene Slaughter, Capital
1969 – Dave Mauer, Wittenberg
1968 – Lee Tressel, Baldwin Wallace