List of Buena Vista Beavers head football coaches

The Buena Vista Beavers football team represents Buena Vista University in college football. The team competes at the NCAA Division III level as a member of the American Rivers Conference (ARC). The program has had 31 head coaches since it began to play during the 1893 college football season. Since the start of the 2023 season, Austin Dickinson has served as head coach of the Beavers.

Willis Edson
Willis Edson (September 25, 1874 – March 5, 1965) was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1902 to 1904. He also coached for Iowa State Normals.

Edson practiced law throughout his career.

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Claude Saner
Claude Saner was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1910.

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Lloyd D. Crouch
Lloyd D. Crouch was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1911.

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Reyburn Rutledge
Reyburn Rutledge was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1912.

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Arthur Hammond
Arthur B. Hammond Jr. was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1913 to 1914.

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Robert Preston
Robert Preston was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1916.

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C. E. Gilmore
C. E. Gilmore was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1917.

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V. A. Woodworth
V. A. Woodworth was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1919.

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George Wanner
George Wanner was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1920 to 1921.

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Burton North
Burton North was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1926.

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Francis Casey
Francis Casey was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1927 to 1934.

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Albert Dallagher
Albert Dallagher was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1935 to 1938.

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Clyde A. Drury
Clyde A. Drury was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1939 to 1941.

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Jake LaFoy
Jake LaFoy was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1942.

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Harland Riebe
Harland Riebe was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1946.

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Kenny Blackman
Kenny Blackman was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1947.

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Delbert Barnham
Delbert Barnham was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1960.

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John H. Jennett
John Howard Jennett (February 6, 1930 – October 20, 2019) was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1961 to 1962.

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John Naughton
John Naughton was an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—from 1963 to 1969.

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Al Lewis
Albert Lester "Butch" Lewis was an American college football coach. He was the interim head football coach for Buena Vista College—now known as Buena Vista University—in 1983.

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Kevin Twait
Kevin Twait is an American former college football coach. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista University from 1990 to 1995 and Iowa Central Community College from 1996 to 2017.

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Joe Hadachek
Joe Hadachek is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Vinton-Shellsburg High School, a position he has held since 2024. He was the head football coach for Buena Vista University from 1996 to 1999 and Union High School from 2007 to 2018.

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