Wake Forest Demon Deacons football

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Program Information
Nickname:	Demon Deacons
Conference Affiliation:	ACC (since 1953)
Current Head Coach:	Jim Grobe (6th year at WFU, 38-34) (12 years, 71-67-1 overall)
Awards
National Titles:	0
Conference Titles:	2
Heisman Winners:	0
Consensus All-American Selections:
College Football Hall of Famers (players and coaches):	1
Records
All-time Record:	389-577-33
Bowl Record:	4-3
BCS Record:	0-1
Pageantry
Colors:	Black and Gold
Outfitter:	Nike
Fight songs:	O' Here's to Wake Forest
Mascot:	Demon Deacon
Marching Band:	Marching Chiefs
Stadium:	Groves Stadium
Rivals:	Duke, North Carolina, and NC State

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons are a college football program that competes in NCAA Division I-A and the Coastal Division of Atlantic Coast Conference.

1 Wake Forest head football coaches
2 Championships
- 2.1 Conference Championships
3 Records
- 3.1 All-time bowl record
4 Rivalries
5 Individual Award Winners
- 5.1 Player
- 5.2 Coaches
6 Current NFL Players
7 Other Famous Players

[edit] Wake Forest head football coaches

Tenure	Coach	Years	Record	Pct.
1888	W.C. Dowd	1	1-0	1.000
1889	W.C. Riddick	1	3-3	.500
1891-93	W.E. Sikes	3	6-2-1	.722
1908	A.P. Hall Jr.	1	1-5	.167
1909	A.T. Myers	1	2-4	.333
1910	Reddy Rowe	1	2-7	.222
1911-13	Frank Thompson	3	5-19	.206
1914-15	W.C. Smith	2	6-10	.375
1916	C.M. Billings	1	3-3	.500
1917	E.T. MacDonnell	1	1-6-1	.188
1918-19	Harry Rabenhorst	2	3-8	.273
1920-21	J.L. White	2	4-15	.211
1922	George Levene	1	3-5-2	.400
1923-25	Hank Garrity	3	19-7-1	.722
1926-27	James A. Baldwin	2	7-10-3	.425
1928	Stanley B. Cofall	1	2-6-2	.300
1929-32	F.S. Miller	4	18-15-4	.541
1933-36	James H. Weaver	4	10-23-1	.309
1937-50	D.C. Walker	14	77-51-6	.597
1951-55	Tom Rogers	5	21-25-4	.460
1956-59	Paul Amen	4	11-26-3	.313
1960-63	Billy Hildebrand	4	7-33	.175
1964-68	Bill Tate	5	17-32-1	.350
1969-71	Cal Stoll	1	15-17	.469
1972	Tom Harper	1	2-9	.182
1973-77	Chuck Mills	5	11-43-1	.209
1978-80	John Mackovic	3	14-20	.412
1981-86	Al Groh	6	26-40	.394
1987-92	Bill Dooley	6	29-36-2	.448
1993-00	Jim Caldwell	7	26-63	.292
2001-	Jim Grobe	6	38-34	.527
1888-2006	31 coaches	100	389-576-33	.402

[edit] Championships

[edit] Conference Championships

Conference Affiliations

1947: Independent
1948-1950: Dixie Conference
1951-1991: Independent
1953: ACC

Year	Conference	Overall Record	Conference Record
1970	ACC	6-5	6-1
2006	ACC	11-2	7-2
Total conference championships		2

[edit] Records

[edit] All-time bowl record

Wake Forest has played in just seven bowls in its history and owns a 4-3 record in those games. In 2006, the school earned a bid to its first ever BCS game, with an Orange Bowl match-up against Louisville.

Date	Bowl	W/L	Opponent	PF	PA
January 1, 1945	Gator Bowl	W	South Carolina	25	14
January 1, 1948	Dixie Bowl	L	Baylor	7	20
December 22, 1979	Tangerine Bowl	L	LSU	10	34
December 31, 1992	Independence Bowl	W	Oregon	39	35
December 21, 1999	Aloha Bowl	W	Arizona State	23	3
December 30, 2002	Seattle Bowl	W	Oregon	38	17
January 2, 2007	Orange Bowl	L	Louisville	13	24
Total	7 bowl games	4-3

[edit] Rivalries

Wake Forest's traditional rivals have been the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the NC State Wolfpack. Unfortunately, both schools have dominated the rivalries, although Wake Forest did win both games in the 2006 edition.