List of Detroit Titans head football coaches
# List of Detroit Titans head football coaches

The Detroit Titans football program was a college football team that represents University of Detroit Mercy as an "independent" program and also in the Missouri Valley Conference, a part of the NCAA University Division. The team has had 18 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1891. The final coach was John Idzik who first took the position for the 1962 season and ended his duties at the end of the final season in 1964.

## Key

Key to symbols in coaches list :

| General | General | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Postseason | Postseason |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| No. | Order of coaches | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
| DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
| CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
| NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties | C% | Conference winning percentage | | |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage | | | | |

## Coaches

Statistics correct as of the end of the 1964 college football season, the last season of intercollegiate play (not counting club football).

| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | PW | PL | CCs | NCs |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 0 | Unknown | 1891 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | William S. Robinson | 1896–1899 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | .700 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | John C. Mackey | 1900–1901 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Edward J. Ryan | 1902, 1906 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | .577 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | W. Alfred Debo | 1903–1904 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | George A. Kelly | 1907–1910 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | .571 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Royal R. Campbell | 1911–1912 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | .567 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | George M. Lawton | 1913–1914 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | .500 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Harry Costello | 1915–1916 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | .385 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | James F. Duffy | 1917–1924 | 56 | 43 | 12 | 1 | .777 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Germany $Schulz^†$ | 1923 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | .556 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Gus $Dorais^†$ | 1925–1942 | 168 | 113 | 48 | 7 | .693 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| 12 | Chuck Baer | 1945–1950 | 57 | 35 | 21 | 1 | .623 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 13 | Dutch $Clark^†$ | 1951–1953 | 30 | 13 | 17 | 0 | .433 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 14 | Wally Fromhart | 1954–1958 | 46 | 19 | 25 | 2 | .435 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 15 | Jim Miller | 1959–1961 | 28 | 18 | 10 | 0 | .643 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | John Idzik | 1962–1964 | 28 | 6 | 21 | 1 | .232 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
