List of Detroit Lions Head Coaches - Coaches

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the 2012 NFL season.

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
Win% Win – Loss percentage
* Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
† Spent entire professional head coaching career with the Lions


# Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards
GC W L T Win% GC W L
Portsmouth Spartans
1 Hal Griffin† 1930 14 5 6 3 .455 – – –
Detroit Lions
2 George "Potsy" Clark 1931–1936 74 48 20 6 .703 1 1 0
3 Earl "Dutch" Clark* 1937–1938 22 14 8 0 .636 – – –
4 Gus Henderson† 1939 11 6 5 0 .545 – – –
— George "Potsy" Clark* 1940 11 5 5 1 .500 – – –
5 Bill Edwards† 1941–1942 14 4 9 1 .308 – – –
6 John Karcis† 1942 8 0 8 0 .000 – – –
7 Gus Dorais† 1943–1947 53 20 31 2 .392 – – –
8 Bo McMillin 1948–1950 36 12 24 0 .333 – – –
9 Buddy Parker 1951–1956 72 47 23 2 .671 4 3 1 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1956)
10 George Wilson 1957–1964 104 53 45 6 .541 2 2 0 AP Coach of the Year (1957)
11 Harry Gilmer† 1965–1966 28 10 16 2 .385 – – –
12 Joe Schmidt* 1967–1972 84 43 34 7 .558 1 0 1
13 Don McCafferty 1973 14 6 7 1 .462 – – –
14 Rick Forzano† 1974–1976 32 15 17 0 .469 – – –
15 Tommy Hudspeth† 1976–1977 24 11 13 0 .458 – – –
16 Monte Clark 1978–1984 105 43 61 1 .413 2 0 2
17 Darryl Rogers† 1985–1988 58 18 40 0 .310 – – –
18 Wayne Fontes† 1988–1996 133 66 67 0 .496 5 1 4 AP Coach of the Year (1991)
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1991)
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1991)
19 Bobby Ross 1997–2000 57 27 30 0 .474 2 0 2
20 Gary Moeller† 2000 7 4 3 0 .571 – – –
21 Marty Mornhinweg† 2001–2002 32 5 27 0 .156 – – –
22 Steve Mariucci 2003–2005 43 15 28 0 .349 – – –
23 Dick Jauron 2005 5 1 4 0 .200 – – –
24 Rod Marinelli† 2006–2008 48 10 38 0 .208 – – –
25 Jim Schwartz† 2009– 64 22 42 0 .344 1 0 1

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