William Alexander

Head coach, Georgia Tech, 1936 to 1944

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.

3-4 against his rivals. Winless in 6 tries against Wallace Wade.

Rivalry record

3-4-2

33.3% · 1 rival

One-score games

15-18-5

39.5% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-2

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Georgia3-4-233%

The toughest matchup

vs. Wallace Wade0-6

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

Blue Blood

0-2 0.0%

Power Program

15-21 41.7%

National Program

16-8 66.7%

Regional Program

12-4 75.0%

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 (1936-1944) 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 least3Drafted

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. 1 went in the first round.

At least 3 — his 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 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 · 3 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1945	R1.04	Estimated
1945	R7.56	Estimated
1938	R5.34	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.