Bob Reade (July 22, 1932 – July 5, 2020) was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at

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from 1979 to 1994, compiling a record of 146–23–1. His Augustana Vikings won four consecutive NCAA Division III Football Championships from 1983 and 1986 and were runners-up in 1982. Reade's teams went unbeaten for 60 straight games (59 wins, one tie) between the start of the 1983 season and the second round of the 1987 NCAA Division III playoffs, when Augustana lost to

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, 38–36. This remains the record for the longest unbeaten streak in NCAA Division III football history. Reade's teams won or shared 12 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin championships and he was named conference Coach of the Year nine times (1981, 1983–1987, 1990, 1993–1994). This award is now named in his honor. Reade was inducted into the

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as a coach in 1998.

Playing career

Reade played football as a linebacker at Cornell College in

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, from which he graduated in 1954.

Coaching career

Reade was the head football coach at J. D. Darnall High School in Geneseo, Illinois from 1962 to 1978, compiling a record of 146–21–4. In 1979, Reade was hired at

, an NCAA Division III school in

. He retired in 1994 with 146 wins and 11 playoff appearances at Augustana.

Honors

Reade was a recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award and was inducted into the

in 1998. In 1993, Reade authored a booked titled ''Coaching Football Successfully'' (), for which

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's Joe Paterno wrote the foreword.

Death

Reade died on July 5, 2020.

Head coaching record

College

References

External links

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