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Larry Kehres is an American college football coach and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at Mount Union for 27 seasons from 1986 to 2012. Kehres retired from coaching in May 2013 with a record of 332–24–3 and a winning percentage of .929, the highest in college football history. Kehres also has the most national titles, conference titles (23), and unbeaten regular seasons (21) of any coach in college football history. His Purple Raiders set the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football record for most consecutive victories with 55, running from 2000 to 2003. He was succeeded as head football coach by his son, Vince. The elder Kehres was also the athletic director at Mount Union from 1985 to 2020. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017.

Early years
Kehres is a native of Diamond, Ohio. He attended and played quarterback for Portage County's Southeast High School, which shared the 1966 Portage County League championship with Windham High School, before attending Mount Union College from 1967 to 1970. At Mount Union, he played quarterback for the football team. In 1970, he set the school record with a 95-yard touchdown pass against Ohio Northern. ==Coaching career==
Coaching career
Bowling Green and Johnstown-Monroe From 1971 to 1972, Kehres was a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, while studying for a master's degree in health and physical education. Wable had a .564 winning percentage in 24 years as the head coach at Mount Union. Kehres also started and served as the coach of Mount Union's swim program from 1974 to 1986. Head coach at Mount Union In 1985, Kehres became the athletic director at Mount Union. In 1986, he took over as head football coach. He was elected President of the AFCA in January 2010. In 2013, Kehres retired after 27 years as head coach to become the athletic director of Mount Union. His son, defensive coordinator Vince Kehres, succeeded him as head coach. ==Family==
Family
Kehres and his wife, Linda, have three children, Vince, Faith, and Jan. He is also the uncle of current Gannon football head coach Erik Raeburn, who played for him from 1987 to 1990 and then served as his assistant coach for a number of years. ==Head coaching record==
Head coaching record
College football High school football ==See also==
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