List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people
# List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people

The following is a list of notable people associated with the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.

## Basketball

### Men's basketball

* Gene Johnson, assistant coach for USA Basketball in the 1936 Olympic Games
* Art Kahler, only person to coach at two different major colleges at the same time – head basketball coach at Brown University and football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
* Brad Long, actor who portrayed team captain "Buddy Walker" in the 1986 film Hoosiers
* Arthur Schabinger, enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1961.

## Football

* Willis Bates, former KCAC football coach who also coached the Auburn Tigers
* Vic Baltzell, linebacker for the Boston Redskins in 1935
* Harold Elliott, head coach with over 200 career wins
* Dennis Franchione, former head coach of Alabama and Texas A&M
* Mike Gardner, current coach at Tabor, achieved post-season play in each of his first five years as a head coach
* Clarence Gilyard, actor
* Homer Woodson Hargiss, inventor of the huddle
* Lem Harkey, San Francisco 49ers
* Harold S. Herd, (also track & field) Kansas Supreme Court Justice
* Ed Hiemstra, offensive lineman for the New York Giants
* Ted Kessinger 2010 inductee in College Football Hall of Fame
* Jerry Kill, former head coach for the University of Minnesota
* Rolland Lawrence, cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons from 1973 to 1980.
* Jay Mack Love member of the National Champion 1904 Michigan Wolverines football team
* Alexander Brown Mackie, founder of Brown Mackie College
* Michael P. McCarthy, youngest General Manager ever to win a Canadian Football League championship with the Toronto Argonauts
* John H. Outland, namesake of the Outland Trophy awarded annually to the best college interior lineman
* Ernie Quigley, umpire of six World Series
* Bill Schnebel, named the 1960 "Little All-American Coach of the Year" and NAIA coach of the year.

## Track and field

### Men's track and field

* Jim Helmer, elected to the NAIA Coach's Hall of Fame in 2001.

### Women's track and field

* Mike Kirkland, Women's coach. Undefeated at the conference level since named head coach in 1992.

## Other

* John Salavantis, broadcaster and former coach at Ottawa University
