By LEE HILLER, Journal Sports
Calvary head football coach Rodney Guin enters his eighth season with the Cavaliers and 24th as a head coach needing just five wins to join two other coaches on the Caddo-Bossier Parish list of football coaches with 200 wins in their career.
Guin is the only coach in the local area that has the most wins at two different schools. He has 69 wins at Calvary, 11 more than John Bachman Sr., and finished his career at Haughton as the winningest coach there with 126 wins. Those 126 wins are the sixth-most by an area coach at one school.
Lee Hedges leads the list of Caddo-Bossier coaches with 216 wins with Dennis Dunn racking up 200 while coaching at Woodlawn and Evangel. Dunn is second on the list of wins at one school with 162 while at Evangel and Hedges’ 146 wins at Captain Shreve is fourth-most.
Haughton is the only local school with three coaches with 100 or more wins. Joining Guin with triple-digit wins are Bobby Ray McHalffey and Will Marston who both finished with 101 wins over a 30-year period before Guin took over.
All-Time Winningest Caddo-Bossier Football Coaches
- Lee Hedges, Byrd, Woodlawn, Captain Shreve, 216-92-10
- Dennis Dunn, Woodlawn, Evangel, 200-41-0
- Rodney Guin, Haughton, Calvary, 195-74-0
- Mike Suggs, Byrd, 167-89-0
- Mike Greene, Loyola, Airline, Fair Park, BTW, Loyola, 156-147-0
- F.H. Prendergast, Fair Park, 151-80-16
- Mitch Downey, Benton, 141-50-0
- Frank Bishop, Plain Dealing, 117-61-7
- Larry Moore, Plain Dealing, 113-142-0
- Jim Gatlin, Parkway, Northwood, 111-78-0
- Billy Don McHalffey, Bossier, 108-76-0
- Jerry Burton, Byrd, Northwood, 107-113-0
- Bobby Ray McHalffey, Haughton, 101-59-2
- Will Marston, Haughton, 101-74-1
- John Bachman Sr., Evangel, Calvary, 95-25-0
- Alan Carter, Loyola, Parkway, Byrd, 92-78-0
- Bo Meeks, Calvary, Airline, 84-63-0
- Reynolds Moore, Benton, 81-44-0
- Ron Worthen, Southwood, 81-53-1
- Gerald Kimble, Green Oaks, BTW, 80-47-1
Winningest Coaches at Each School
Mike Suggs, Byrd, 167-89-0
Dennis Dunn, Evangel, 162-23-0
F.H. Prendergast, Fair Park, 151-80-16
Lee Hedges, Captain Shreve, 146-52-5
Mitch Downey, Benton, 141-50-0
Rodney Guin, Haughton, 126-57-0
Frank Bishop, Plain Dealing, 117-61-7
Billy Don McHalffey, Bossier, 108-76-0
Jerry Burton, Northwood, 84-76-0
Ron Worthen, Southwood, 81-53-1
Mike Greene, Airline, 81-58-0
Gerald Kimble, Green Oaks, 76-40-0
Tony Rhodes, Huntington, 77-105-1
C.O. Brocato, St. Johns-Jesuit (now Loyola), 76-37-0
A.L. Williams, Woodlawn, 64-25-2
David Feaster, Parkway, 59-17-0
Bobby Hudson, North Caddo, 51-86-3
Demise Loyd, BTW, 47-39-0