Coach Jim Lanagan
Graduating class: 1974 - 1981
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 2023
Hall of Fame Category: Coach
Jim Lanagan wrapped up his 15th season at Bishop Stang High School in November of 1995 which marked his 37th season of walking the sidelines as a head football coach. He left Bishop Stang as the winningest football coach in that school’s history with an overall record of 90-55-5. It was the final stop in a head coaching career that included stints at Monsignor Coyle High School of Taunton, Wareham and Fairhaven High School. Coach Lanagan’s overall 37-year coaching record is 178 wins, 110 losses and 8 ties.
He won back-to-back Southeastern Massachusetts Conference Div III championships at Wareham High School in 1972 and 1973, and then made it three consecutive titles by leading Fairhaven High School to the SMC Div II championship in his first year there in 1974.
Jim began his head coaching career at Coyle in 1964 where he remained for seven seasons before taking the reins at Wareham in 1971. After three years with the Vikings, Coach Lanagan replaced Kevin Cadieux as the head coach at FHS in March of 1974 and he directed Blue Devils’ football teams for the next seven seasons, the final two while serving as the school’s Director of Athletics. Jim won a title in his first year at Fairhaven, taking 29 returning team members from an 0-9-0 1973 team and turning the 1974 team into an 8-2-0 championship squad that produced three all-star players and earned Coach Lanagan the title of SMC Defensive Coach of the Year.
His record at Fairhaven High School is as follows:
1974: 8-2-0
1975: 8-1-0
1976: 5-5-0
1977: 4-5-1
1978: 5-5-0
1979: 7-2-1
1980: 2-8-1
TOTAL: 39-27-3