Harry Hughes: coaching record and career

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.

2-7 against his rivals. Winless in 6 tries against Ike Armstrong.

Rivalry record

2-7-3

16.7% · 2 rivals

One-score games

8-13-6

29.6% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Wyoming2-1-333%

Colorado0-60%

The toughest matchup

vs. Ike Armstrong0-6

6 meetings, 1936–1941

’36 L’37 L’38 L’39 L’40 L’41 L

0% win rate across a real, 6-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

0-11 0.0%

National Program

0-4 0.0%

Regional Program

10-9 52.6%

Building the roster

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

1Roster ownership

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1936-1941) 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

See Colorado State’s full coaching history →

The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1936–1941

Colorado State Steady

National Program II

Harry Hughes held Colorado State at National Program II for 6 seasons.

2nd-best Colorado State tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Succeeded by Julius Wagner (1942).

15-29-6