Vosburgh Inducted into DeSales Catholic Hall of Fame

On Thursday, Oct. 10, Paul Vosburgh, head football coach at St. John Fisher University, was inducted into the DeSales Catholic School Hall of Fame as part of its 2024 class.

Vosburgh, in his 34th year at St. John Fisher, graduated from DeSales in 1971. He has 190 career victories as a collegiate coach over 36 seasons, including 179 as head coach of the Cardinals, the most in program history.

A three-time all-league linebacker at DeSales, Vosburgh played collegiately at William Penn University (Iowa). He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Pittsburg State University in Kansas before returning to DeSales Catholic in 1978 to become the school’s athletic director and head football coach.

Vosburgh went from one alma mater to another in 1983, joining the William Penn coaching staff as the defensive coordinator. He became head coach of that program in 1985 and spent three seasons there before being named the seventh head coach in Fisher football history in 1991.

A fixture in Fisher’s athletics department and the Division III football community, Vosburgh has won six Empire 8 championships with the Cardinals. He has led five teams to the NCAA Division III Football Championship and reached the national semifinals in 2006. The Cardinals are 10-5 in the NCAA Division III Football Championship under Vosburgh.

Vosburgh has five 10-win seasons and six Eastern College Athletic Conference bowl game victories at Fisher. The two-time Empire 8 Coach of the Year and 2006 National Coach of the Year led the Cardinals to 129 victories from 2003-2019, about eight wins per season.