Steve Englehart continues to hold Rose-Hulman's
all-time record for winning percentage by a head football coach
after four successful seasons at the helm of the Fightin'
Engineers.
Englehart has led the Fightin' Engineers to a
26-14 record and a .650 winning percentage over his four years at the NCAA Division III
institution, including two seasons at 7-3 and two at 6-4.
Rose-Hulman has also recorded four consecutive six-win seasons
for the first time in school history.
The four-year span is the best stretch of football at Rose-Hulman
since the 1987-90 teams were 29-10-1.
Englehart led the Engineers to their best
conference finish since 1988 with an outright second-place
effort in 2008. The past three squads have combined for
the 30 all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference awards.
In 2008, Englehart successfully engineered
the team's first foreign trip in six years with a summer trip to Italy. The tradition will continue in three-year increments as
permitted by NCAA Division III rules.
In addition, his efforts included implementation
of the "Locker Room Project" to help reconnect alumni with the
football program and raise revenue for the team. The
project has provided the resources for new team uniforms and
travel over the past two years, while allowing alumni to have
their name and playing seasons placed into the locker
corresponding to their jersey numbers.
Englehart, entering his ninth 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 always 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.
Englehart's offensive
units have made a significant mark on the Fightin' Engineer record book.
Derek Eitel graduated with every major career passing record at
Rose-Hulman after completing 576 passes for 7,507 yards and 52
touchdowns over the last four years.
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. Reed Eason
currently ranks second in school history with 155 pass
receptions and 19 touchdowns, and will enter his senior year
needing just 15 catches and four touchdowns for program records.
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 (8) and Ty (5).
Russ Houser
* Defensive
Coordinator
* Defensive Backs Coach
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Russ Houser enters his second
season as Rose-Hulman's defensive coordinator this fall.
Houser, entering his third season on the Engineer
defensive staff, led a defensive unit that tallied six
all-conference honorees in 2008. Rose-Hulman finished 7-3
overall last season and earned outright conference runner-up honors
for the team's best league finish since 1988.
Houser enters his seventh
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.
During his playing career, Houser earned NAIA
Academic All-American honors and was an academic all-league honoree
at Malone College in Ohio. He started three years as a
defensive back and captured Most Outstanding Scholar-Athlete and
academic all-league honors. The Magna Cum Laude graduate also
received the Dick Gallagher Memorial Award, honoring the late
director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Following his playing and early coaching career
, Houser was a
managing partner at ProScoutVideo, a video editing software company,
from 2005-06. He has completed a master's degree in physical
education at Indiana State University and earned a business administration degree at Malone.
E-mail:
houser@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8050
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Jayson
Martin
* Assistant Football Coach (Offensive
Coordinator, WRs)
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Jayson Martin enters his
second season on the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology coaching
staff and first year as the team's offensive coordinator this fall.
Martin, who also served as wrestling interim head
coach in 2009, also serves as the team's recruiting coordinator.
As a college football player, Martin led
Kentucky State to a Division II Pioneer Bowl title in 1997 and led
the state of Kentucky in passing in 1993.
He has most recently served
as offensive coordinator at Holy Trinity Academy High School in
Florida.
E-mail:
martin1@rose-hulman.edu
Phone:
(812) 877-8471
Fax:
(812) 877-8407
Mike Ellis
* Assistant Football Coach (Offensive Line)
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Mike Ellis enters his fourth season
on the Rose-Hulman football coaching staff this fall.
Ellis has more than 20
years of overall coaching experience at various levels of football.
His Rose-Hulman squads have had at least one all-conference
offensive line honoree during each of Ellis' seasons at the college.
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
Lou West
* Assistant Football
Coach (Inside Linebackers)
Lou West enters his second
season 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 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.
E-mail:
west1@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8050
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Darius Gary
* Assistant Football
Coach (Offensive Line)
Darius Gary joins the
Fightin' Engineer coaching staff as an assistant offensive line
coach this fall.
Gary earned a bachelor's
degree from Oakland University in human resources development and
served as a board member of the human resource development honor
society. He also served as men's basketball team manager for the
Golden Grizzlies in 2006-07.
Gary is currently pursuing
a master's degree in physical education with a coaching emphasis at
Indiana State University.
Phone: (812) 877-8471
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Kevin Steidel
* Assistant Football
Coach (Running Backs)
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Kevin Steidel begins his
first year on the Rose-Hulman football staff as running backs coach
this fall.
Steidel served as a
position coach and assistant special teams coordinator at Oak Hills
High School for the last three seasons, after serving as general
manager for the Ohio University men's ice hockey team for from
2001-03.
Steidel also served as
daytime business and evening bar manager at Jefferson Hall.
He earned a bachelor's
degree in business administration from Ohio University in 2003.
E-mail:
steidel@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8471
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Ethan Tyler
* Assistant Football
Coach (Linebackers)
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Ethan Tyler joins the
Engineer coaching staff with an emphasis on linebackers in 2009.
Tyler earned Great Lakes
Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2006 at St.
Joseph's College. He won the McMillan Award as Vigo County's top
male athlete after a standout career at North H.S. in 2003.
Tyler has served as a
football and basketball assistant at Terre Haute North for the last
two years. He earned a bachelor's degree in physical education at
St. Joseph's in 2007 and is pursuing a master’s degree at Indiana
State.
E-mail:
tyler@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8050
Fax: (812) 877-8407
Brian Vaughn
* Assistant Football
Coach (Defensive Backs)
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Brian Vaughn enters his
first year as defensive backs coach at Rose-Hulman this fall.
Vaughn served as assistant
coach at NCAA Division III Western New England for the past four
years, including three years as defensive coordinator. He also
coached a secondary that ranked sixth nationally in interceptions
with 22 in 2005.
Vaughn played four years of
varsity football at Illinois College, where he earned a bachelor's
degree in exercise science in 2005.
E-mail:
vaughnba@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8050
Fax: (812) 877-8407
