Sid Smith: McPherson College hired Sid Smith in 1953. For the next twenty years, Smith would serve as tireless head coach of football, basketball, track, tennis, and golf teams at the college. He also served as athletic director at the college. Highlight years for football include 1953 when the team finished second in the conference, scored 379 points and only allowed 100. The 1959 team also finished second. Basketball teams under Smith’s tutelage finished second five times. And although he only coached tennis one year, the team won the conference championship that year. With 52 wins, Smith remains the winningest football coach in McPherson College history. 

Before coming to McPherson College, Smith coached football, basketball, and track at Simpson and Beloit high schools and Highland Park High School Topeka. In those years, he had four high school basketball teams advance to the state tournament and coached an undefeated six-man football team at Simpson High School.

Following his retirement as a physical education professor and coach at McPherson College in 1973, Smith went on to work another twenty years in the development office at the college. Over the years, he has also officiated football, basketball, and track events. As an athlete and graduate at Kansas Wesleyan University, Smith has been inducted into the KWU Athletic Hall of Fame. He is a charter member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a member of Lions, Rotary, and Gideons International, and remains active in the First United Methodist Church in McPherson.