List of Rhode Island Rams head football coaches
# List of Rhode Island Rams head football coaches

The Rhode Island Rams football team represents Rhode Island University in college football. The team competes in the Colonial Athletic Association as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had twenty head coaches since it began to play during the 1895 college football season. Since the start of the 2014 season, Jim Fleming has served as head coach of the Rams.

## 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

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards :

| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | PT | DC | CC | NC | Awards |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Marshall Tyler | 1898–1901, 1903–1908 | 51 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 0.539 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | George Cobb | 1909–1911, 1913–1914 | 38 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 0.513 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | Robert Bingham | 1912 | 9 | 6 | 3 | – | 0.667 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | Jim Baldwin | 1915–1916 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0.400 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5 | Fred Murray | 1917, 1919 | 16 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 0.219 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6 | Frank Keaney | 1920–1940 | 169 | 70 | 87 | 12 | 0.450 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | Bill Beck | 1941, 1946–1949 | 36 | 12 | 22 | 2 | 0.361 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8 | Paul Cieurzo | 1942, 1945 | 9 | 5 | 4 | – | 0.556 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 9 | Hal Kopp | 1950, 1952–1955 | 41 | 28 | 11 | 2 | 0.707 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | – | – |
| 10 | Ed Doherty | 1951 | 8 | 3 | 5 | – | 0.375 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 11 | Herb Maack | 1956–1960 | 41 | 17 | 22 | 2 | 0.439 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| 12 | John Chironna | 1961–1962 | 18 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0.306 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 13 | Jack Zilly | 1963–1969 | 64 | 21 | 41 | 2 | 0.344 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 14 | Jack Gregory | 1970–1975 | 49 | 22 | 25 | 2 | 0.469 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – |
| 15 | Bob Griffin | 1976–1992 | 202 | 94 | 107 | 1 | 0.468 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | 3 | – | – |
| 16 | Floyd Keith | 1993–1999 | 78 | 25 | 53 | – | 0.321 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| 17 | Tim Stowers | 2000–2007 | 80 | 33 | 47 | – | 0.413 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 18 | Darren Rizzi | 2008 | 12 | 3 | 9 | – | 0.250 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 19 | Joe Trainer | 2009–2013 | 56 | 12 | 44 | – | 0.214 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 20 | Jim Fleming | 2014–present | 93 | 32 | 61 | – | 0.344 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
