The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Dale Hall

Followed Red Blaik. Dale Hall inherited a Power Program I Army and won with it.

16–11

1959–1961 · 1 stint

Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Reached Power Program in his 1st career season — faster than 57% of the 395 FBS coaches who have ever reached Power Program (rank #1 of 395 by seasons-to-arrival).

Army, 3 seasons

−4.3

Power Program I → Power Program II.

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.

0–3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Wayne Hardin.

Rivalry record

0–3–1

0.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

2–8–2

16.7% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

1–2

33.3%

Rivalry ledger

Navy0–30%

Air Force0–0–10%

The toughest matchup

vs. Wayne Hardin0–3

3 meetings, 1959–1961

’59 L’60 L’61 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-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

1–2 33.3%

Power Program

2–7 22.2%

National Program

3–1 75.0%

Regional Program

2–1 66.7%

Coaching career

1959–1961

Armyinheritor

Power Program I → Power Program I

Dale Hall inherited a Power Program I Army and won with it.

2nd-best Army tenure of 17 by the numbers.

Followed Red Blaik (1941–1958) · succeeded by Paul Dietzel (1962–1965).

16–11