Dick Zornes

Dick Zornes
Biographical details
Born (1944-06-15) June 15, 1944 (age 80)
Playing career
1963–1966Eastern Washington State
Position(s)Safety, fullback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1967Eastern Washington State (SA)
1968Hawaii (assistant)
1970sMontana Tech (assistant)
1970sBC Lions (assistant)
1977–1978Columbia Basin
1979–1993Eastern Washington
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1990–1993Eastern Washington
1997–1999Eastern Washington
Head coaching record
Overall89–66–2 (college)
17–3 (junior college)
Tournaments1–2 (NCAA D-I-AA playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 NWCCC (1978)
1 Big Sky (1992)
1 NWCCC Eastern Division (1977)
1 NWCCC Southern Division (1978)

Dick Zornes (born June 15, 1944) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at Eastern Washington University in Cheney from 1979 to 1993, compiling a 89–66–2 (.573) record. Zornes also served two stints as the athletic director at Eastern Washington, from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999. A native of Vancouver, Washington, he played college football at Eastern Washington—then Eastern Washington State College—from 1963 to 1966 as a safety and fullback for the Savages, then an NAIA program in the Evergreen Conference.

Zornes continued at his alma mater in 1967 as a student coach under Dave Holmes and moved with Holmes to the University of Hawaii in 1968. Zornes was later an assistant coach at Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology—now known as Montana Technological University—in Butte and with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was hired as the head coach at Columbia Basin College, a junior college in Pasco, Washington, in 1977. In two seasons at Columbia Basin he tallied a mark of 17–3.[1]

  1. ^ "Zornes new Eastern athletic director". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. December 12, 1990. Retrieved April 25, 2016.