Susquehanna University Athletics

Steve Briggs spent 27 years with the Susquehanna football program. Briggs arrived at SU in 1988 as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator under fellow inductee, the late William “Rocky” Rees, before taking over the head coaching reins in 1990. His career wins (127) and the number of games he coached (253) both exceed the totals set by any other head coach in Susquehanna's long football tradition which dates back to 1892. Briggs guided the 1991 team to the program's only berth to date in the semifinals of the NCAA Division III Football Championship, falling to the eventual national champion, Ithaca College. In 2009, he led SU to a Liberty League title and he and his staff earned the league's Coaching Staff of the Year award. That same year, the Liberty Mutual Group named Briggs one of five NCAA Division III finalists for its National Coach of the Year award. He coached an impressive list of 73 first-team all-conference players since 1990 in the Centennial Conference, Liberty League, and Mid-Atlantic Conference with five of them being named conference players of the year. Briggs also mentored seven All-Americans and four Academic All-Americans.