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John Luckhardt finished his Washington & Jefferson College coaching career as the all-time football coaching victory leader with a 137-37-2 record from 1982-1998. He now ranks second in all-time wins behind current head coach Mike Sirianni. Prior to Luckhardt’s arrival, the Presidents had produced only four winning seasons in a 17-year period. In 1984, W&J ripped off nine wins, won the Presidents’ Athletic Conference title and earned the school’s first trip to the NCAA Division III playoffs.
W&J claimed 13 Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships during Luckhardt’s tenure and made 11 appearances in the NCAA playoffs, including two trips to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl (1992 and 1994). A total of 13 of Luckhardt’s former players have already been inducted into the W&J Athletic Hall of Fame. Luckhardt was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and received the American Football Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. From 1994 through 1998, he was elected to and served on the American Football Coaches Association Board of Directors.
In 1992, he was named the AFCA/Kodak National Coach of the Year, and CNN named Luckhardt the Division III Coach of the Year in 1994. From 1996 until 1998, Luckhardt also served as Washington & Jefferson College’s Director of Athletics.
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