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Barry Streeter returns for his 30th season as the head football coach at Gettysburg College in 2008. Streeter is not only the winningest coach in program history with a record of 147-142-5, but he is also the longest tenured coach having passed the legendary Henry “Hen” Bream (1927-51) on both counts. In addition, Streeter became the all-time winningest coach in Centennial Conference history with a 27-20 win over Moravian College on Oct. 6, 2007, giving him 78 Centennial victories.
Streeter and Bream (104-69-12) are the only Gettysburg football coaches to surpass 100 career victories. The former picked up his 100th win when the Bullets closed out their 1994 season with a 52-20 triumph over Franklin & Marshall College. Midway through the 1995 campaign, the Bullets knocked off Muhlenberg College, 28-16, giving Streeter his 105th win and making him the all-time leader at Gettysburg. Heading into the 2008 season, Streeter ranks 10th among active coaches by victories in NCAA Division III.
Streeter has molded the Bullets into one of the top offensive teams in the Centennial Conference. In 2007, Gettysburg led the conference in rushing for the third year in a row, averaging 248.6 yards per game while piling up a conference-leading 404.7 yards of total offense per game. The Bullets finished the 2007 campaign 6-5 and earned a bid in the ECAC Southwest Bowl, which Gettysburg led the entire game before dropping a tough 21-20 decision at Carnegie Mellon University.
Streeter joined the coaching staff at Gettysburg in 1975 as an assistant on Joseph Sabol’s football staff and as the head coach of the track & field program. On Feb. 3, 1978, he succeeded Sabol on the gridiron, becoming one of the youngest head football coaches ever at Gettysburg.
Starting with the 1980 season, when the Bullets fashioned a 6-3-1 record, he guided the program to winning records for eight consecutive years, the longest such streak in school history. In 1985, he guided Gettysburg to its third consecutive Centennial Conference Championship and its inaugural appearance in the NCAA Division III playoffs, advancing all the way to the national semifinals and finishing with an 11-1-1 record. His 1994 squad posted an 8-2 mark and set numerous conference records, including the still-standing mark of yards gained in a single season (4,544).
A 1971 graduate of Lebanon Valley College, Streeter earned two varsity letters as a tight end on the football team and two as a defenseman on the school’s lacrosse team. He was awarded a master’s degree in health and physical education from the University of Delaware in 1975. As a graduate assistant on Tubby Raymond’s football staff at Delaware, Streeter became an astute student of the Delaware Wing-T, which is the basis for Gettysburg’s Spread Wing offense.
Streeter has two sons, Jason and Brandon, and two daughters, Kelly and Lindsey. Jason played football at Lehigh University, and Brandon was a starting quarterback for Clemson University.
