Jack Meagher

Head coach, Auburn, 1936 to 1942

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.

4-2 against his rivals. Just 1-2 against Red Dawson.

Rivalry record

4-2-1

57.1% · 1 rival

One-score games

12-16-10

31.6% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Georgia4-2-157%

The toughest matchup

vs. Red Dawson1-2-3

6 meetings, 1936–1941

’36 T’37 T’38 T’39 L’40 W’41 L

17% 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

Power Program

8-10 44.4%

National Program

15-12 55.6%

Regional Program

5-2 71.4%

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 (1936-1942) 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 least5Drafted

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 5 — his 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 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 · 5 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1943	R3.17	Estimated
1943	R6.43	Estimated
1942	R2.14	Estimated
1942	R3.19	Estimated
1937	R4.26	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.