Claude Simons

Head coach, Tulane, 1942 to 1945

College career13-17-1

Program liftNo. 1,059tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

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.

1-3 against his rivals. Just 1-3 against Bernie Moore.

Rivalry record

1-3

25.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

4-5-1

40.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-2

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

LSU1-325%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bernie Moore1-3

4 meetings, 1942–1945

’42 L’43 W’44 L’45 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

Blue Blood

0-2 0.0%

Power Program

2-6 25.0%

National Program

11-6 64.7%

Building the roster

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

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1942-1945) 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.

The NFL pipeline

at least5Drafted

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. 2 went in the first round.

At least 5 — his 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 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 · 5 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1946	R1.02	Estimated
1946	R5.30	Estimated
1945	R1.03	Estimated
1944	R5.38	Estimated
1943	R5.33	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.