Dick Zornes

Dick Zornes (born June 15, 1944) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Eastern Washington University from 1979 to 1993, compiling a record of 89–66–2. Zornes was also the athletic director at Eastern Washington from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999. A native of Vancouver, Washington, he played college football at Eastern Washington—then known as Eastern Washington State College—from 1963 to 1966 as a safety and fullback. He returned to his alma mater in 1967 as a student coach under Dave Holmes. He moved with Holmes to the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1968. Zornes also worked as an assistant coach at Montana Tech of the University of Montana and with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was hired as the head football coach at Columbia Basin College, a junior college in Pasco, Washington, in 1977. In two seasons at Columbia Basin he tallied a mark of 17–3.