Ron Mitchell (coach)

For a Coppin State basketball coach of the same name, see Fang Mitchell.

Ron Mitchell
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1938-09-29) September 29, 1938
Alma mater	Kentucky State University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1968–?	Boston University (freshmen)
1982	Kentucky State (interim HC)
1985	Alabama State (interim HC)
Men's basketball
1968–?	Boston University (freshmen)
1971–1974	Boston University
1974–1976	Grinnell
1981–1982	Kentucky State
Women's basketball
1980–1981	Kentucky State (interim HC)
1986–1998	Alabama State
Head coaching record
Overall	3–13 (football) 53–88 (men's basketball)

Ron Mitchell (born September 29, 1938) is a former American football and basketball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Boston University from 1971 to 1974, at Grinnell College from 1974 to 1976, and at Kentucky State University for one season in 1981–82. Mitchell was the interim head women's basketball coach at Kentucky State in 1980–1981 and the head women's basketball coach at Alabama State University from 1986 to 1998. He was also the interim head football coach at Kentucky State for the final five games on the 1982 seasons and the interim head football coach at Alabama State for the 1985 season.^[1]

Mitchell became the first African American appointed to a full-time athletics position at Boston University when we was hired as an assistant football and basketball coach in 1968.^[2]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Kentucky State Thorobreds (NCAA Division II independent) (1982)
1982	Kentucky State	0–5^{[n 1]}
Kentucky State:		0–5
Alabama State Hornets (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (1985)
1985	Alabama State	3–8	2–5	6th
Alabama State:		3–8	2–5
Total:		3–13

Notes

↑ LeRoy Smith resigned on October 19. Mitchell served as interim head coach for the remainder of the season.^[3]

References

↑ Kentucky State University Football Media Guide, Coaching Records
↑ "Negro Named Coach at Boston University". The Milwaukee Journal. May 29, 1968. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
↑ "Final 1982 Cumulative Football Statistics Report" (PDF). NCAA.org. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved December 26, 2012.

External links

Ron Mitchell at the College Football Data Warehouse

Boston University Terriers men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1901–1907)
No team (1907–1908)
P. V. Stroud (1908–1909)
Charles McGlue (1909–1910)
H. L. Perrin (1910–1911)
No team (1911–1915)
Henry Crane (1915–1916)
V. B. Allison (1916–1918)
No team (1918–1919)
Percy L. Wendell (1919–1920)
No coach (1920–1923)
No team (1923–1924)
John Williams (1924–1925)
Win Carlson (1925–1932)
John Harmon (1932–1935)
Mel Collard (1935–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Mel Collard (1944–1945)
Russ Peterson (1945–1948)
Charles Cummings (1948–1949)
Vin Cronin (1949–1952)
Matt Zunic (1952–1959)
John Burke (1959–1966)
Charles Luce (1966–1971)
Ron Mitchell (1971–1974)
Roy Sigler (1974–1978)
Rick Pitino (1978–1983)
John Kuester (1983–1985)
Mike Jarvis (1985–1990)
Bob Brown (1990–1994)
Dennis Wolff (1994–2009)
Pat Chambers (2009–2011)
Joe Jones (2011– )

Kentucky State Thorobreds head football coaches

Durral B. Evans (1921–1923)
Louis J. Harper (1924–1925)
Scott Brown (1926)
Roscoe C. Vaught (1927)
J. T. Williams (1928–1930)
Henry Kean (1931–1942)
No team (1943)
Norman Passmore (1944)
Bill Willis (1945)
Robert White (1946)
C. Randy Taylor (1947–1950)
George E. Edwards (1951–1956)
Joe Gilliam, Sr. (1957–1958)
Sam B. Taylor (1959–1962)
Mel Whedbee (1963–1967)
Charles Bates (1968–1969)
LeRoy Smith (1970–1982)
Ron Mitchell # (1982)
Larry Kirksey (1983)
Willie Williamson & Theo Lemon (1984)
James Walker (1985)
John K. Wright (1986)
William K. Head (1987–1989)
George James, Jr. (1990–1991)
Maurice Hunt (1992–1994)
George Small (1995–2000)
Donald Smith (2001–2003)
Cornell Burbage (2004)
Fred Farrier (2005–2008)
Wayne Dickens (2009–2012)
Josh Dean (2013–2015)
John L. Smith (2016– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Alabama State Hornets head football coaches

Unknown (1901)
Theodore Bradford (1902)
No team (1903)
Theodore Bradford (1904)
J. A. Welton (1905)
Unknown (1906–1908)
John Hope (1909–1911)
No team (1912–1913)
John Hope (1914–1916)
Professor Kilpatrick (1917–1918)
No team (1919–1920)
Ralph Harris (1921–1924)
Bertrand C. Jacobs (1925–1927)
Guston F. Lewis (1928–1933)
Rufus A. Lewis (1934–1942)
John Brown (1943)
George H. Lockhart (1944)
John Brown (1945–1948)
James H. Dixon (1949–1951)
Arthur E. Simmons (1952–1961)
C. E. Anderson (1962)
Marino Casem (1963)
Whitney L. Van Cleve (1964–1968)
Henry Holbert (1969–1972)
Willie Parker (1973–1975)
George James, Jr. (1976–1983)
Willie Parker (1984)
Ron Mitchell # (1985)
Willie Parker (1986)
Houston Markham (1987–1997)
Ron Dickerson (1998–1999)
L. C. Cole (2000–2002)
Charles Coe (2003–2006)
Reggie Barlow (2007–2014)
Brian Jenkins (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

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