Dick Zornes
Dick Zornes is an American former football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head coach at Eastern Washington University in Cheney from 1979 to 1993 [Eastern Washington Eagles football team|1993], compiling a record. Zornes also served two stints as the athletic director at EWU from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999. A native of Vancouver, Washington, he played college football at Eastern Washington—then Eastern Washington State College—from 1963 to 1966 as a football position)|safety] and fullback for the Eastern [Washington Eagles football|Savages], then an NAIA program in the Evergreen Conference.
Zornes continued at his alma mater in 1967 as a student coach under Dave Holmes and moved with Holmes to the University of Hawaii in 1968. Zornes was later an assistant coach at Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology—now known as Montana Technological University—in Butte and with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was hired as the head 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.