Lou Little

Head coach, Columbia, 1936 to 1956

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.

Winless in 13 tries against George Munger.

One-score games

28-31-7

42.4% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-4

20.0%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. George Munger0-13

13 meetings, 1938–1952

’38 L’41 L’42 L’43 L’44 L’45 L’46 L’47 L’48 L’49 L’50 L’51 L’52 L

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

1-4 20.0%

Power Program

4-10 28.6%

National Program

27-63 30.0%

Regional Program

31-27 53.4%

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 (1936-1956) 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 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 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
1949	R3.21	Estimated
1949	R3.22	Estimated
1948	R4.21	Estimated
1943	R1.04	Estimated
1939	R1.02	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.