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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
1970Sugar BowlL 13-34Stats
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.
1-1 against his rivals at Virginia.
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.
10-11 against his rivals at Air Force. Just 2-8 against Eddie Crowder.
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.
11-12 against his rivals. Just 2-8 against Eddie Crowder.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Virginia→
Air Force1958Players 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 (1958-1977) 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.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
2nd-best Air Force tenure of 6 by the numbers.
Followed Buck Shaw (1956–1957) · succeeded by Bill Parcells (1978).
| Season | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Record | 9-0-2 | 5-4-1 | 4-6 | 3-7 | 5-5 | 7-4 | 4-5-1 | 3-6-1 | 4-6 | 2-6-2 | 7-3 | 6-4 | 9-3 | 6-4 | 6-4 | 6-4 | 2-9 | 2-8-1 | 4-7 | 2-8-1 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | L bowl | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Followed Ned McDonald (1953–1955) · succeeded by Richard Voris (1958–1960).
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+5.0 pts at Air Force · #384 of 1290 · middle half