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Abe Stuber

Followed Mike Michalske. Abe Stuber held Iowa State at Regional Program IV for 7 seasons.

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1947–1953 · 1 stint
Iowa State
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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.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerIOWA STATERegional Programthe building-block levelIowa State, 1947: 3-6, Regional Program IV1947Iowa State, 1948: 4-6, Regional Program IV1948Iowa State, 1949: 5-3, Regional Program IV1949Iowa State, 1950: 3-6, Regional Program IV1950Iowa State, 1951: 4-4, Regional Program IV1951Iowa State, 1952: 3-6, Regional Program IV1952Iowa State, 1953: 2-7, Regional Program IV1953+0.8One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

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).

Iowa State, 7 seasons
+0.8
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.

Winless in 5 tries against William Glassford.

One-score games
7–11–2
35.0% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–4
0.0%
The toughest matchupNemesis
vs. William Glassford0–5
5 meetings, 1949–1953
’49 L’50 L’51 L’52 L’53 L
Performance by opponent class
Blue Blood
0–4 0.0%
Power Program
0–4 0.0%
National Program
3–16 15.8%
Regional Program
11–12 47.8%

Coaching career

1947–1953
Iowa Statecaretaker
Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV
Abe Stuber held Iowa State at Regional Program IV for 7 seasons.

16th-best Iowa State tenure of 19 by the numbers.

Followed Mike Michalske (1942–1946) · succeeded by Vince Di Francesca (1954–1956).

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