After the 2012 season, the top 10 list of Wyoming high school football coaches in terms of total victories has a new member.
Natrona coach Steve Harshman is now tied for eighth all-time on the victories list. The Mustangs went 12-0 in winning the Class 4A title, and Harshman jumped from 11th to eighth on the list in the process.
Coincidentally, Harshman, with 146 career victories, is now tied with his former high school coach, Dallas Hoff, for eighth all-time.
Harshman has been the head coach at Natrona since 1991.
Of course, current Cokeville coach Todd Dayton still tops the all-time list. He has 272 victories through the end of the 2012 season.
The list, through the end of last season:
Rank | Coach | Wins | Losses | Ties |
1 | Dayton, Todd | 272 | 51 | 0 |
2 | Deti, John E. | 205 | 94 | 8 |
3 | Deti, John R. | 188 | 102 | 2 |
4 | Fullmer, Jerry | 174 | 82 | 0 |
5 | McDougall, John | 156 | 115 | 2 |
6 | Blanchard, Okie | 149 | 55 | 7 |
7 | Eskelsen, Joel | 148 | 81 | 0 |
8t | Harshman, Steve | 146 | 66 | 0 |
8t | Hoff, Dallas | 146 | 100 | 6 |
10 | Gray, Walter | 140 | 87 | 0 |
–patrick