Edwin Kimball: coaching record and career

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

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BYU1937–41 · 21-15-7BYU1946–48 · 13-17-1All jobs34-32-8

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 at BYU. Winless in 5 tries against Ike Armstrong.

Rivalry record

3-4-3

30.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

7-7-7

33.3% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Utah0-3-20%

Utah State3-1-160%

The toughest matchup

vs. Ike Armstrong0-3-2

5 meetings, 1937–1941

’37 L’38 T’39 L’40 L’41 T

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

0-7 0.0%

National Program

1-1 50.0%

Regional Program

13-3 81.2%

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.

1-4 against his rivals at BYU. Winless in 3 tries against Ike Armstrong.

Rivalry record

1-4-1

16.7% · 2 rivals

One-score games

8-5-1

57.1% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Utah0-30%

Utah State1-1-133%

The toughest matchup

vs. Ike Armstrong0-3

3 meetings, 1946–1948

’46 L’47 L’48 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-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

National Program

1-5 16.7%

Regional Program

8-5 61.5%

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.

4-8 against his rivals. Winless in 8 tries against Ike Armstrong.

Rivalry record

4-8-4

25.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

15-12-8

42.9% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Utah0-6-20%

Utah State4-2-250%

The toughest matchup

vs. Ike Armstrong0-6-2

8 meetings, 1937–1948

’37 L’38 T’39 L’40 L’41 T’46 L’47 L’48 L

0% win rate across a real, 8-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

0-7 0.0%

National Program

2-6 25.0%

Regional Program

21-8 72.4%

Building the roster

One numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1937-1948) 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

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The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1937–1941, 1946–1948

BYU Steady

Regional Program I → Regional Program I (left at Regional Program IV)

Closest comparable run: Jim Caldwell’s Wake Forest run (1993–2000)

Edwin Kimball slid BYU from Regional Program I to Regional Program IV in 8 seasons.

−8.0 pts over 8 seasons · bottom 10% of 6-9-season tenures (368 in sample)

5th-best BYU tenure of 12 by the numbers.

Followed Ott Romney (1936) · succeeded by Floyd Millet (1942) · returned in 1946 · succeeded by Charles Atkinson (1949–1955).

34-32-8

Was he good?

Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.

Raised the program

+0.8 pts at BYU · #631 of 1290 · middle half