title: List of Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference people
text: # 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
  