Beattie Feathers

Head coach, NC State, 1944 to 1951

College career37-38-3

Program liftNo. 207tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

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.

0-5 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Carl Snavely.

Rivalry record

0-5

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

13-18-3

38.2% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

North Carolina0-50%

The toughest matchup

vs. Carl Snavely0-5

5 meetings, 1947–1951

’47 L’48 L’49 L’50 L’51 L

0% win rate across a real, 5-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

1-13 7.1%

National Program

6-17 26.1%

Regional Program

25-7 78.1%

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 (1944-1951) 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 least2Drafted

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.

At least 2 — his 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 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 · 2 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1952	R4.33				Estimated
1947	R7.44				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.