Tiny Thornhill: 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.

0-4 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Stub Allison.

Rivalry record

0-4

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

5-11-5

23.8% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

California0-40%

The toughest matchup

vs. Stub Allison0-4

4 meetings, 1936–1939

’36 L’37 L’38 L’39 L

0% 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

Power Program

2-9 18.2%

National Program

8-8 50.0%

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 (1936-1939) 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

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The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1936–1939

Stanford Steady

Power Program II

Tiny Thornhill held Stanford at Power Program II for 4 seasons.

2nd-best Stanford tenure of 20 by the numbers.

Succeeded by Clark Shaughnessy (1940–1941).

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