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Career arc
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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.
Winless in 4 tries against Francis Schmidt.
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.
1-1 against his rivals at Stanford.
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.
1-0 against his rivals at Maryland.
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.
5-1 against his rivals at Pittsburgh. Winless in 3 tries against Ray Eliot.
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.
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.
7-2 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Francis Schmidt.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Chicago→
Stanford1940Stanford→
Maryland1942Players 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
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (1943-1945) 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Decliner the program's standing fell materially during the tenure · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
12th-best Pittsburgh tenure of 23 by the numbers.
Followed Charles Bowser (1939–1942) · succeeded by Wesley Fesler (1946).
Followed Jack Faber (1940–1941) · succeeded by Clarence Spears (1943–1944) · returned in 1946, succeeding Bear Bryant (1945) · succeeded by Jim Tatum (1947–1955).
Followed Tiny Thornhill (1936–1939) · succeeded by Marchy Schwartz (1942).
1st-best Chicago tenure of 1 by the numbers.
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
-17.0 pts at Pittsburgh · #1285 of 1290 · bottom quarter