The Carroll Pioneers football program is a college football team that represents Carroll University in the Midwest Conference, a part of NCAA Division III. The team has had 27 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1896. The current coach is Mark Krzykowski who first took the position for the 2011 season. Former head coach Matty Bell was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. Key Coaches Details The following are details on coaches that do not have articles on Wikipedia. For coaches with articles on Wikipedia, see links in the table above. Ward A. Wescott Playing history Oconto Eleven Wescott played for the Oconto, Wisconsin town team in 1895 and played a game against the team that would become the Green Bay Packers. Wescott was both a player and trainer, receiving accolades for his abilities to teach the game as well as to play. Coaching history Carroll College Wescott was the second head coach at Carroll and he held that position for the 1896 season. Preliminary reports predicted a "lively" season. Wescott's players were predicted as promising before the season began. Controversy was stirred up after a game against Milwaukee East High School on October 17, 1896. Carroll won the game 4-0, but the opposing team disputed the result. The next season's game was cancelled because Carroll was regularly using "ringers" or players that were brought in to the team from outside the school specifically to win games. High school Wescott later went on to coach the successful Eau Claire, Wisconsin high school team in 1902. J. G. Britton Britton was the head coach during a game witnessed by Miss Anna Sackett, who found the game to be so brutal that she revoked $5,000 (a sizeable sum at the time) from her will that had been bequested to Carroll College. She claimed that the "players were brutes" and would no longer support the school if they continued play. Later that same year (October 29), she died and left none of the funds to the college. Charles C. Boone While Boone was the coach, college president William Arthur Ganfield boasted that within four years' time Carroll would be beating the Wisconsin Badgers in football. In his one year of coaching, the team fell far short of that mark with its one win for the season and was outscored by 119 to 14 and left fans