WALTHAM, Mass. – Legendary Bentley football coach Peter Yetten is a recipient of the John Baronian Lifetime Contribution to Football Award, the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston recently announced.

Yetten was Bentley's head coach from 1979 to 2008. The University named the football field in his honor in 2024.

Yetten had a career record of 225-81-2 in his 30 seasons at the helm of the Bentley football program. The first nine of those seasons the Falcons were a club program before transitioning to varsity.

In all, Yetten had 27 winning seasons. He was named the Northeast 10 Coach of the Year three times, earned Easten Collegiate Football Conference Coach of the Year four times, and received New England Football Writers Coach of the Year twice. Yetten was the ECAC Intercollegiate Football Conference DII Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1994.

Yetten led the Falcons to NE10 titles in 2003 and 2004, as Bentley reached the NCAA Championship in both of those seasons.

Since 1997, the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston has handed out the prestigious award for lifetime achievement as it is named for John Baronian, a Worcester native and long-time supporter of Tufts athletics, who passed away in 2008.
The Gridiron Club hosts the Bob Whelan College Football Awards Dinner Dec. 15 (Click HERE).