Athletic Directors

This page lists the athletic directors."

Athletic Directors

Athletic Directors

      This list contains the names of persons with the title Athletic Director, Director of Athletics, Physical Director, and Director of Physical Education and Athletics. This person may or may not have been the head coach of a major sport, but was often the head football or (later) basketball coach. At various times in the history of the institution this person had faculty status and functioned more as a teacher of physical education than as a coach.

Morris Harvey College

  • 1910-1913 Kemper Shelton
  • 1913-1918 Herman Beckelheimer
  • 1918-1919 Paul Gray Miller
  • 1919-1920 William W. Lovell
  • 1920-1921 Elbert Martin "Brownie" Fulton
  • 1921-1924 Herman Beckelheimer
  • 1924-1926 H. J. Hindman
  • 1926-1928 Elbert Martin "Brownie" Fulton
  • 1928-1929 E. Spence Shannon
  • 1929-1930 Arthur E. Rezzonico
  • 1930-1931 Frank L. Arritt
  • 1931-1932 George C. Nilan
  • 1932-1936 Walter Hamilton "Muley" Walker
  • 1936-1942 Thurman L. "Jule" Ward
  • 1942-1943 C. B. "Cebe" Ross
  • 1943-1945 Athletics suspended, June 1943. C. B. Ross, on active duty in U. S. Navy during World War II retains title Director of Athletics.
  • 1945-1946 Alderson "Stretch" Propps
  • 1946-1947 Alderson "Stretch" Propps & Carl Edward "Eddie" King
  • 1947-1952 Carl Edward "Eddie" King
  • 1952-1954 Eddie Cubbon
  • 1954-1957 Carl Edward "Eddie" King
  • 1957-1965 Garland E. Moran, Jr.


University of Charleston

  • 1965-1982 Richard Meckfessel [Institution became University of Charleston in 1979]
  • 1982-1984 Richard Mullendore
  • 1984-1990 James Buckalew
  • 1990- 1998 Linda Bennet
  • 1998- Thomas Nozica