The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Henry Shenk

Followed Gwinn Henry. Henry Shenk held Kansas at Regional Program IV for 3 seasons.

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1943–1945 · 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 Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Kansas, 3 seasons

+2.1

Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV.

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.

3–3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Mike Michalske.

Rivalry record

3–3

50.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

1–4–1

16.7% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Kansas State2–167%

Missouri1–233%

The toughest matchup

vs. Mike Michalske0–2–1

3 meetings, 1943–1945

’43 L’44 L’45 T

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

Power Program

0–5 0.0%

National Program

2–4 33.3%

Regional Program

2–4 33.3%

Coaching career

1943–1945

Kansascaretaker

Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV

Henry Shenk held Kansas at Regional Program IV for 3 seasons.

19th-best Kansas tenure of 21 by the numbers.

Followed Gwinn Henry (1939–1942) · succeeded by George Sauer (1946–1947).

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