Bill Cooke (American football coach)

American football coach

Bill Cooke
Playing career
1970–1972	Fort Lewis

Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1976–1977	Fort Lewis (assistant)
1982–1983	Fort Lewis (DC)
1984–1987	Fort Lewis
1988	Missouri Southern (interim HC)
1989–1999	Missouri Southern (DC)
2000–2003	Missouri Southern

Head coaching record
Overall	35–54–1
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 RMAC (1984)

Bill Cooke is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado from 1984 to 1987 and at Missouri Southern State University on an interim basis in 1988 and full-time from 2000 to 2003, compiling a career college football coaching record of 35–49–1.

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Fort Lewis Raiders (Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) (1984–1987)
1984	Fort Lewis	7–2–1	7–0–1	1st
1985	Fort Lewis	6–3	5–2	2nd
1986	Fort Lewis	4–5	4–2	T–2nd
1987	Fort Lewis	3–6	3–3	T–4th
Fort Lewis:		20–16–1	19–7–1
Missouri Southern Lions (Central States Intercollegiate Conference) (1988)
1988	Missouri Southern	3–7	2–5	T–6th
Missouri Southern Lions (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association) (2000–2003)
2000	Missouri Southern	2–9	2–7	8th
2001	Missouri Southern	4–6	3–6	T–7th
2002	Missouri Southern	5–6	3–6	T–6th
2003	Missouri Southern	1–10	1–8	9th
Missouri Southern:		15–38	11–32
Total:		35–54–1
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth

"Bill Cooke". Fort Lewis Skyhawks. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
Fryar, Jim (April 7, 2006). "Cooke resigns". Joplin Globe. Retrieved December 14, 2019.

v t e Fort Lewis Skyhawks head football coaches
Lou Cullen (1963–1970) Jay McNitt (1971–1981) Gary Barnett (1982–1983) Bill Cooke (1984–1987) Sheldon Keresey (1988–1991) Kevin Donnalley (1992–1993) Dave Preszler (1994–1995) Todd Wash (1996–1999) Todd Throckmorton (2000–2003) Ed Rifilato (2004–2009) Cesar Rivas-Sandoval (2010–2012) John L. Smith (2013–2015) Ed Rifilato (2016–2018) Brandon Crosby (2019) Darrius G. Smith (2020–2021) Johnny Cox (2022– )

Lou Cullen (1963–1970)
Jay McNitt (1971–1981)
Gary Barnett (1982–1983)
Bill Cooke (1984–1987)
Sheldon Keresey (1988–1991)
Kevin Donnalley (1992–1993)
Dave Preszler (1994–1995)
Todd Wash (1996–1999)
Todd Throckmorton (2000–2003)
Ed Rifilato (2004–2009)
Cesar Rivas-Sandoval (2010–2012)
John L. Smith (2013–2015)
Ed Rifilato (2016–2018)
Brandon Crosby (2019)
Darrius G. Smith (2020–2021)
Johnny Cox (2022– )

v t e Missouri Southern Lions head football coaches
Unknown (1937–1942) No team (1943–1945) Unknown (1946–1952) Ed Hodges (1948–1951) Dudley Stegge (1952–1963) Ron Toman (1964–1966) Jim Johnson (1967–1968) Reuben Berry (1969–1970) Jim Frazier (1971–1985) Rod Giesselmann (1986–1987) Bill Cooke # (1988) Jon Lantz (1989–1997) Rob Green # (1997) Greg Gregory (1998–1999) Bill Cooke (2000–2003) John Ware (2004–2005) Keeth Matheny # (2005) Bart Tatum (2006–2011) Daryl Daye (2012–2014) Denver Johnson (2015–2018) Joe Bettasso # (2018) Jeff Sims (2019) Atiba Bradley (2020– ) # denotes interim head coach

# denotes interim head coach