SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE 2010 PREVIEW TEAM PREVIEWS 2009 REVIEW HISTORY & RECORDS
THE FRITZ FILE Birthday:............................................ April 2, 1960 Hometown:..........................Shawnee Mission, Kan. High School:............. Shawnee Mission Northwest College:.................................... Pittsburg State ‘82 Wife:.................................................................Susan Children:.............................Wesley, Elaine, Brooke
CAREER RECORD Year School Overall 1993 Blinn Junior College 6-3-1 1994 Blinn Junior College 9-2-0 1994 Blinn Junior College 12-0-0 1995 Blinn Junior College 12-0-0 BLINN TOTAL 39-5-1
SLC — — — — .878
1997 Central Missouri 5-6-0 1998 Central Missouri 8-3-0 1999 Central Missouri 7-4-0 2000 Central Missouri 7-4-0 2001 Central Missouri 10-2-0 2002 Central Missouri 10-2-0 2003 Central Missouri 9-2-0 2004 Central Missouri 7-4-0 2005 Central Missouri 7-3-0 2006 Central Missouri 5-6-0 2007 Central Missouri 7-4-0 2008 Central Missouri 7-4-0 2009 Central Missouri 8-3-0 UCM TOTAL 97-47-0 CAREER TOTAL 136-52-1
— — — — — — — — — — — — — .674 .722
BEARKATS’ COACHING HISTORY Name S.R. Warner Gene Barry James Gee J.W. Jones H.O. Crawford T.F. Wilson Paul Pierce Tom Page Allen Boren Billy Tidwell Melvin Brown Ron Randleman Todd Whitten
Years Record 1912-13 5-3-1 1914-19 14-15-1 1920-22 6-7-4 1923-35 54-53-10 1936-37 7-12 1938-51 50-49-6 1952-67 94-52-7 1968-71 20-19-3 1972-73 7-14-0 1974-77 11-26-1 1978-81 12-29-0 1982-04 132-124-3 2005-09 25-28-0
SAM HOUSTON STATE WILLIE FRITZ Head Coach Pittsburgh State, 1983 First Year Overall Record: 136-52-1 (17 Seasons) Record at Sam Houston State: 0-0 (First Season) Willie Fritz, who has produced an overall record of 220 victories, 78 losses and five ties in a 28-year career as both a head coach and an assistant, is the 14th head football coach at Sam Houston State University. The winningest coach in the University of Central Missouri’s 113-year football history rolled up a 97-47 record in 13 seasons as the Mules head coach. In 11 of those seasons, Central Missouri posted a winning record. He is the only Central Missouri head coach to produce eight consecutive seasons of seven or more wins. The Bearkats’ new football coach is no stranger to Sam Houston State. He served as a graduate assistant for Bearkat squads that went 16-6 in 1984-85 and won the 1985 Gulf Star Conference championship. He was the secondary and special teams coach for the Bearkats in 1991 and 1992, helping lead Sam Houston to a Southland Conference championship and starting a tradition of special teams success that lasted more than a decade. The “block party” saw Bearkat special teams block 80 punts, field goals and extra points in the 14 seasons from 1991 to 2004. From 1993-96, Fritz was head coach at Blinn College where he turned around a program that had gone 5-24-1 in its three previous seasons. Fritz produced a 39-5-1 record and two national junior college championships. In his final two seasons at Blinn, the Pirates rolled up perfect 12-0 records. For his efforts at Blinn, Fritz has been inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame. As head coach at Central Missouri, Fritz led the Mules to their first post-season berth in 32 years when they defeated Minnesota-Duluth in the 2001 Mineral Water Bowl. A year later, Central Missouri earned its first NCAA Division II playoff berth after winning the Mid-America Athletic Association (MIAA) championship. Fritz coached 152 All-MIAA performers including 41 first-team selections and 24 All-Americans. Fritz ranks No. 15 among active NCAA Division II head coaches in victories. In his 13 years at UCM, the Mules enjoyed an 84 percent graduation rate with three Academic All-Americans, 14 Academic All-Region and 144 MIAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll selections. Central Missouri ranked No. 11 in NCAA Division II football attendance. Fritz was the second member of his family to coach at Central Missouri. His father, the late Harry Fritz, was the Mules’ head football coach in 1952 and later become executive director of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Fritz played college football at Pittsburg State University where he was a four-year starter as a defensive back and played on two conference championship teams. He was a student assistant coach for the Gorillas in 1982. Fritz served as an assistant football coach at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Kansas in 1983 and at Willis High School in Texas in 1986 and was defensive coordinator at Coffeyville Community College in Kansas from 1987 to 1990.
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