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Career arc
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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.
2-0 against his rivals at Pittsburgh.
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 at Ohio State. Winless in 3 tries against Bennie Oosterbaan.
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.
1-2 against his rivals at Minnesota. Winless in 3 tries against Ivy Williamson.
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.
3-5 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Stuart Holcomb.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Pittsburgh→
Ohio State1947Ohio State→
Minnesota1951Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (1951-1953) 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
The arc of his career is on Now.
Inheritor inherited a power and neither built it higher nor let it collapse · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
4th-best Minnesota tenure of 15 by the numbers.
Followed Bernie Bierman (1945–1950) · succeeded by Murray Warmath (1954–1971).
11th-best Ohio State tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Followed Paul Bixler (1946) · succeeded by Woody Hayes (1951–1978).
Followed Clark Shaughnessy (1943–1945) · succeeded by Walter Milligan (1947–1949).
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
-2.5 pts at Ohio State · #849 of 1290 · middle half