Gerry Collis

Gerry Demos Collis (June 3, 1930 – January 24, 2024), sometimes spelled Jerry Collis, was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California from 1967 to 1983, compiling a record of 121–49–2. He led his 1976 Bakersfield team to a victory in the Junior Rose Bowl and a junior college national championship. Collis was also the head baseball coach at Bakersfield from 1958 to 1967.

Collis served as backfield coach for the football team at Bakersfield from 1957 to 1966, before succeednig Ray Newman as head football coach in 1967.

Collis was born on June 3, 1930, in McGill, Nevada. He died on January 24, 2024.