About Ken Swearingen
Born 1930. Ken Swearingen is an american football player.
Ken Swearingen (born ) is an American former college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at El Camino College in Alondra Park, California from 1962 to 1975, Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California from 1975 to 1994, and the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California from 2004 to 2005, compiling a career junior college football head coaching record of 253–76–6. His 253 wins are the most of any junior college football coach. Swearingen led his teams to three national titles, at El Camino in 1968, and Saddleback in 1985 and 1992. His 1971 El Camino team also won the California state large division championship.
Swearingen played football at El Camino in 1952 and 1952 and then at the College of the Pacific—now known as the University of the Pacific—in Stockton, California. He returned to El Camino in 1957 as an assistant coach and succeeded Doug Essick as head coach following the 1961 season.
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