Ray Tellier

Ray Tellier

Sport(s)	Football
Current position
Title	Associate athletic director
Team	Columbia
Conference	Ivy
Biographical details
Born	(1951-06-10) June 10, 1951 West Haven, Connecticut
Playing career
1969–1972	Connecticut
Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1983	Brown (OC)
1984–1988	Rochester
1989–2002	Columbia
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2005–present	Columbia
Head coaching record
Overall	63–122–3
Tournaments	0–1 (NCAA D-III playoffs)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
AFCA NCAA Division I-AA Coach of the Year (1996)

Ray Tellier, Jr. (born June 10, 1951) is an American college athletics administrator and former college football player and coach and. He currently serves as an associate athletics director at Columbia University, a position he has held since 2005. Tellier was the head football coach at the University of Rochester from 1984 to 1988 and at Columbia from 1989 to 2002, compiling a career record of 63–122–3.

Biography

Tellier grew up in West Haven, Connecticut and was a high school football All-American, playing for his father in 1968. He attended the University of Connecticut and lead that team to the Yankee Conference title in 1971.

After graduating from Connecticut in 1973, Tellier entered the coaching ranks, serving as an assistant at Connecticut, Dartmouth College, Wabash College, and Boston University during the 1970s. In 1978 he became offensive coordinator at Brown University under head coach John A. Anderson. Brown was experiencing a revival in football at the time and Tellier's time there was a successful one.

When Anderson resigned in 1983, Tellier moved on to become head coach at University of Rochester, an NCAA Division III school. He turned the moribund program around over the next five years, going 9–2 and making the NCAA Division III playoffs for the first time in school history, in 1987. His overall record at Rochester was 21–26–1.

In 1989 Tellier was hired by Columbia and asked to revive their program (which had just broken a 44-game losing streak) in a similar fashion. His results were mixed. Significant improvement did not begin to be seen until 1994 and in 1996 the team would win eight games for the first time since 1945. But thereafter the team slowly declined again until by 2002 the team was again winless in the Ivy League. Tellier stepped aside at the end of that season and joined the administrative side of the athletic department. In 2005 he was appointed an associate athletics director and continues to serve in that capacity.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Rochester Yellowjackets (NCAA Division III independent) (1984–1988)
1984	Rochester	1–8
1985	Rochester	2–7
1986	Rochester	1–7–1
1987	Rochester	9–2			L NCAA Division III First Round
1988	Rochester	8–2
Rochester:		21–26–1
Columbia Lions (Ivy League) (1989–2002)
1989	Columbia	1–9	1–6	8th
1990	Columbia	1–9	1–6	8th
1991	Columbia	1–9	1–6	T–7th
1992	Columbia	3–7	2–5	T–6th
1993	Columbia	2–8	1–6	T–7th
1994	Columbia	5–4–1	3–4	T–4th
1995	Columbia	3–6–1	3–4	5th
1996	Columbia	8–2	5–2	2nd
1997	Columbia	4–6	3–4	T–5th
1998	Columbia	4–6	3–4	T–5th
1999	Columbia	3–7	1–6	T–7th
2000	Columbia	3–7	1–6	T–7th
2001	Columbia	3–7	3–4	T–4th
2002	Columbia	1–9	0–7	8th
Columbia:		42–96–2	28–70
Total:		63–122–3

External links

• Columbia profile
• Ray Tellier at the College Football Data Warehouse