Steve Englehart enters his third season as head
football coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2008.
Englehart led the Engineers to their best season
since 1994 last fall. The team’s 10 all-league selections
included Defensive Player of the Year Paul Spreen, and
Englehart’s teams have compiled a record of 13-7 in his two
seasons.
Last summer, Englehart successfully engineered
the team’s first foreign trip since 2002 with a trip to Italy in
June. The tradition will continue in three-year increments as
permitted by NCAA Division III rules. The 31-year old Terre
Haute native completed the 2007 season as the youngest head
football coach among all NCAA Division I, II and III programs.
Englehart, entering his seventh season on the
Fightin’ Engineer coaching staff, served as the team’s offensive
coordinator and recruiting coordinator from 2003-05.
Rose-Hulman compiled a 14-16 record during those three seasons.
“This is a great place to coach, because our kids
are over-achievers. Our players balance football, a rigorous
curriculum, campus organizations, work study and sometimes even
ROTC to be where they are today. Personally, after playing high
school and college football in Terre Haute, I appreciate this
wonderful opportunity to be the head coach at Rose-Hulman,” said
Englehart.
Englehart’s philosophy on both sides of the ball
emphasizes aggression and power, along with the best available
use of talent.
During the past five years, Englehart’s offensive
unit has made a significant mark on the Rose-Hulman record book.
Tailback Charlie Key completed a standout career with a school
record 4,400 all-purpose yards, ranked second in school history
with 38 touchdown rushes, and moved into fourth on the all-time
rushing list with 2,741 yards. Junior quarterback Derek
Eitel already ranks sixth in school history in career passing
yardage and completions, entering the 2008 campaign.
Englehart began his coaching career as the Rose-Hulman’s
quarterback coach in 2002, before earning a promotion to
offensive coordinator during the following off-season. He earned
three varsity letters as quarterback at Indiana State
University, while earning a bachelor’s degree in health
education in 2000.
Off the field, Englehart earned academic
all-Gateway Conference recognition in 1998 and 1999, was named a
GTE Scholar Athlete three times, and earned Sycamore Honor
Athlete recognition for four seasons.
Prior to his playing days at Indiana State
University, Englehart was a four-year starting quarterback at
Terre Haute North High School, prior to his graduation in 1996.
Englehart and his wife, Carrie, reside in Terre Haute and have
two children, Caden (6) and Ty (3).
Tony Karras
* Recruiting Coordinator
* Special Teams Coordinator
* Defensive Line
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Tony Karras begins his
fifth season as the recruiting coordinator, special teams
coordinator and defensive line coach at Rose-Hulman in 2008.
Karras played four years on the defensive line and
earned three varsity letters at
Northwestern, before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in
education in 1988. He also serves as the head wrestling coach at
Rose-Hulman.
Karras comes from a family of successful football
coaches and players. His brother Ted, Jr., served as head
coach at Rose-Hulman from 2003-05, before accepting the head
coaching position at Marian (Ind.).
Tony's father, Ted, Sr., played for nine years in
the National Football League from 1958-66 and was a starting guard
for the 1963 world champion Chicago Bears. His uncle, Alex,
played football professionally for the Detroit Lions from 1958-71
and later appeared in more than 25 movies as an actor.
In high school, Karras was named the Munster Times
Defensive Player of the Year in 1983 and earned a pair of all-state
honors on the defensive line at Hobart H.S.
Karras enjoyed a successful 14-year sales career at
Quaker Oats and Kraft, before returning to coaching in the Hammond
High School District in 2002.
E-mail:
karras13@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8250
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Russ Houser
* Defensive
Coordinator
* Defensive Backs Coach
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Russ Houser has been promoted to
defensive coordinator at Rose-Hulman for the upcoming 2008 season.
Houser, entering his second season on the Engineer
defensive staff, helped lead the Engineers to a shutout victory over
the Italy LENAF All-Star Team in his first appearance as coordinator
this summer. He will also coach the Engineer defensive backs
this season.
Houser enters his sixth
year in college coaching, including three years on the defensive
coaching staff at Youngstown State University from 2002-04. He also
coached defensive backs at Kenyon in 2001.
In addition, Houser was a
managing partner at ProScoutVideo, a video editing software company,
from 2005-06. He earned a business administration degree at Malone
College of Ohio.
E-mail:
houser@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8050
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Mike Ellis
* Assistant Football Coach (Offensive Line)
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Mike Ellis brings 20 years of coaching experience
to his third season as offensive line coach at
Rose-Hulman this fall.
Ellis has served on the staff at Edgewood, Northview, Shiloh and
Terre Haute North in his coaching career. He most recently
spent four years as offensive line coach at Northview High School,
where the team compiled a 26-14 record.
His efforts helped a pair of 1,000-yard running backs become just
the second and third players in school history to accomplish the
feat. Northview also won the school's first-ever sectional
game and back-to-back conference titles in his four-year stint.
E-mail:
ellis1@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8903
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Wayne Stahley
* Assistant Football Coach (Running
Backs)
Wayne Stahley enters his third year on the Engineer coaching staff in 2007 after spending 25 years on
the sidelines at Monrovia and Terre Haute North High Schools.
Stahley compiled a career record of 142-121 at the two schools,
with a 39-13 mark at Monrovia and a 103-108 ledger at Terre Haute
North. He also served as athletic director at Monrovia, after
spending three seasons as an assistant football and head wrestling
coach at Hamilton Southeastern.
During his playing days, Stahley attended Butler University as a
four-year football player and began his career as a three-sport
athlete at Indianapolis Roncalli High School.
Phone: (812) 877-8903
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Kevin Dean
* Assistant Football Coach (Wide
Receivers)
Kevin Dean begins his
second season as an offensive coach for the Fightin' Engineers in
2008.
Dean enjoyed a stellar
playing career that included the McMillan Award as Vigo County’s top
male athlete in 1999 at North High School. He also led the Gateway
Conference in receptions at Indiana State in 2003.
Dean also served as an
assistant coach at Northview H.S. for three years. He earned a
business management degree from Indiana State University in 2004.
Phone: (812) 877-8903
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Matt Louis
* Assistant Football Coach (Outside
Linebackers)
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Matt Louis enters his first
season on the Engineer coaching staff during the 2008 season.
Louis spent the last two
seasons as assistant coach at the University of Cincinnati, as an
assistant to the head coach and a defensive backs mentor.
Previously, Louis served as
a football operations assistant for the Cincinnati Bengals and was a
graduate assistant football coach for defensive backs at the
University of Buffalo.
As a player at Muskingum
College, Louis claimed first-team all-league honors and second-team
all-region accolades in 2002. He was named the team's Most
Valuable Player as a three-year starter at cornerback. His
career statistics included 140 tackles, 14 interceptions, 22 pass
breakups and two fumble recoveries.
Louis earned a bachelor’s
degree in business with a minor in history at Muskingum College in
2003. He completed a master's degree in sports administration
at Xavier University in 2005.
Phone: (812) 877-8913
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Jayson Martin
* Assistant Football Coach (Quarterbacks)
Jayson Martin joins the
Engineers as the team quarterback coach in 2008.
As a player, Martin led
Kentucky State to a Division II Pioneer Bowl title in 2007 and led
the state of Kentucky in passing in 2003.
He has most recently served
as offensive coordinator at Holy Trinity Academy High School in
Florida.
Phone: (812) 877-8903
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Lou West
* Assistant Football
Coach (Inside Linebackers)
Lou West makes his debut on
the Rose-Hulman coaching staff this fall.
West most recently served
as head coach at NCAA Division I-AA Indiana State University for the
past three seasons.
Prior to his head coaching
position at Indiana State, West served as a defensive assistant
coach at Toledo, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, Kent State and
Cincinnati over the past 20 years.
Phone: (812) 877-8050
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Justin Meade
* Student Assistant Coach (Wide
Receivers)
Justin Meade will serve as
a student assistant coach in 2008.
Meade hauled in 29
receptions for 400 yards for the Fightin’ Engineers last fall.
Phone: (812) 877-8903
Fax: (812) 877-8407
