Arthur Guepe

Head coach, Vanderbilt, 1953 to 1962
Before: Virginia

College career86-71-9

Program liftNo. 613tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

Pick a job to see its years on their own.

Virginia1946–52 · 47-17-2Vanderbilt1953–62 · 39-54-7All jobs86-71-9

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

6-0 against his rivals at Virginia. Just 1-3 against George Munger.

Rivalry record

6-0-1

85.7% · 1 rival

One-score games

10-4-2

62.5% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Virginia Tech6-0-186%

The toughest matchup

vs. George Munger1-3

4 meetings, 1946–1950

’46 L’47 L’49 W’50 L

25% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

3-6 33.3%

National Program

6-4 60.0%

Regional Program

31-6 83.8%

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

3-8 against his rivals at Vanderbilt. Winless in 9 tries against John Vaught.

Rivalry record

3-8-1

25.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

9-16-7

28.1% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-4

20.0%

Rivalry ledger

Tennessee2-820%

Missouri1-0-150%

The toughest matchup

vs. John Vaught0-9

9 meetings, 1953–1962

’53 L’54 L’55 L’56 L’57 L’59 L’60 L’61 L’62 L

0% win rate across a real, 9-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

1-4 20.0%

Power Program

9-31 22.5%

National Program

14-16 46.7%

Regional Program

8-3 72.7%

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

9-8 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against George Munger.

Rivalry record

9-8-2

47.4% · 3 rivals

One-score games

19-20-9

39.6% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-4

20.0%

Rivalry ledger

Tennessee2-820%

Virginia Tech6-0-186%

Missouri1-0-150%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. George Munger1-4

5 meetings, 1946–1953

’46 L’47 L’49 W’50 L’53 L

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

1-4 20.0%

Power Program

12-37 24.5%

National Program

20-20 50.0%

Regional Program

39-9 81.2%

Building the roster

Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Who followed him
2Roster ownership
3The NFL pipeline

Followed him here

Virginia→

Vanderbilt1953

No confirmed followers on this move. This move predates this database’s 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor, so real followers may be undercounted here.

Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1953-1962) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least7Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 3 went in the first round.

At least 7 — his 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 7 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1960	R1.05	Estimated
1959	R3.26	Estimated
1959	R6.59	Estimated
1959	R7.70	Estimated
1958	R1.12	Estimated
1958	R6.66	Estimated
1956	R1.11	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.

Arthur Guepe

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

Building the roster

Followed him here

Roster ownership

The NFL pipeline

Career

Coaching career

All-time wins

Was he good?