In the fall of 2011, David Caputi will enter his 12th season as the head coach of the Bowdoin football team. Hired in the spring of 2000 as the 28th coach in the storied history of the program, Caputi has led a rebuilding effort that has seen the Polar Bears become one of the most competitive teams in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, winning three consecutive C-B-B Championships (Colby-Bates-Bowdoin) from 2006-08 for the first time in three decades and capturing his fourth C-B-B outright crown in 2010.

In 2005, Bowdoin earned a third-place finish in the NESCAC with victories over Amherst, Middlebury, Tufts, Hamilton, Wesleyan and Bates. A program-best four Polar Bears earned All-Conference selections that season, and nearly 40 players have collected All-NESCAC honors under Caputi. In addition, several of Caputi's players have been recognized as Academic All-NESCAC, by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the National Football Foundation and the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston.

Caputi joined the Bowdoin athletic staff after serving as the offensive coordinator for Williams College -- a fellow member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). In his 13 years at Williams, the Ephs compiled a 88-13-3 record with four undefeated seasons. Before joining Williams, Caputi served as the quarterbacks and secondary coach for Tufts University from 1985 to 1986. In his two seasons at Tufts, the football team transformed from an 0-7-1 squad the year before he arrived to 7-1 in his second season. In 1986, the Jumbos were voted the top-ranked Division III football team in New England.

After a year of assistant coaching for Fitchburg (Mass.) High School, Caputi earned his first collegiate coaching experience at Amherst College as a receivers coach and scouting coordinator in 1982. After a brief stint in the business world in 1983-84, Caputi returned to coaching -- again with Amherst -- as an offensive backfield and receivers coach, helping the Lord Jeffs notch a perfect 8-0 season in 1984.

Caputi graduated from Middlebury College in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in American history. On the gridiron, he was the starting quarterback for a Panthers squad that finished the 1980 season with a 6-1-1 record. In 1994, Caputi received his Master's Degree in Education from North Adams State (Mass.) College.

Caputi is married to Elizabeth Connolly Caputi and they have four children -- David, Marguerite, Lydia and Claire. For more information about the Bowdoin football team, contact Head Coach Caputi at dcaputi@bowdoin.edu