Swede Larson: coaching record and career

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.

3-0 against his rivals. Just 1-2 against George Munger.

Rivalry record

3-0

100.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

4-6-3

30.8% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Army3-0100%

The toughest matchup

vs. George Munger1-2

3 meetings, 1939–1941

’39 L’40 L’41 W

33% 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

Power Program

0-3 0.0%

National Program

8-5 61.5%

Regional Program

6-0 100.0%

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 (1939-1941) 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

See Navy’s full coaching history →

The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1939–1941

Navy Steady

National Program II → National Program II

Closest comparable run: Charlie Weatherbie’s Utah State run (1992–1994)

Swede Larson held Navy at National Program II for 3 seasons.

+0.9 pts over 3 seasons · top 30% of 3-5-season tenures (717 in sample)

8th-best Navy tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Followed Hank Hardwick (1937–1938) · succeeded by John Whelchel (1942–1943).

16-8-3

Was he good?

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

Raised the program

+0.9 pts at Navy · #620 of 1290 · middle half