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Career arc
Stats
Big games
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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.
Winless in 4 tries against Hal Lahar.
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.
2-3 against his rivals at Duke. Just 1-3 against Earle Edwards.
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.
Winless in 3 tries against Dave McClain.
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.
2-3 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Hal Lahar.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Cornell→
Duke1966Players 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 (1975-1977) 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
1st-best Indiana State tenure of 1 by the numbers.
3rd-best Duke tenure of 15 by the numbers.
Followed Bill Murray (1951–1965) · succeeded by Mike McGee (1971–1978).
7 NFL Draft picks: Bob Matheson (1967), Dave Dunaway (1967), Andy Beath (1968), Al Woodall (1969), Leo Hart (1971), Phil Asack (1971), Wes Chesson (1971)
4th-best Cornell tenure of 5 by the numbers.
Followed George James (1947–1960).
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+2.6 pts at Cornell · #518 of 1290 · middle half