Carl Snavely

Head coach, 1937–1952

Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1945–1952North CarolinaHead Coach

1937–1940CornellHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak85Career77

1937–1952 · 11 seasonsRecord 63-33National titles 1Great seasons 4 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 77: his whole career, recent seasons weighted most, measured as how far his teams stood above their era, crediting him with half of what each program already was when he arrived (about the share that, historically, follows a coach to his next job), fading as the program becomes his own.
Peak 85: best five-season stretch, 1939–1948 at Cornell and North Carolina (39-7, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title).
Career 77 (#95 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (63-33), 1 national title, 4 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Proven at 2 programs: Cornell · North Carolina.

Rating = who he is: his whole head-coaching career (since 1936), weighted toward recent years — how far his teams stood above their contemporaries, how much he lifted programs, his great seasons and titles. Form = the last two seasons. Career = the all-time ranking number.

Season	Team	Record	Season rank	vs contemporaries
1952	North Carolina	2-6	#59	-0.25 SD
1951	North Carolina	2-8	#56	-0.05 SD
1950	North Carolina	3-5-2	#58	-0.07 SD
1949	North Carolina	7-4	#33	+0.45 SD
1948	North Carolina	9-1-1	#2	+1.75 SD
1947	North Carolina	8-2	#6	+1.53 SD
1946	North Carolina	8-2-1	#9	+1.25 SD
1945	North Carolina	5-5	#32 (wartime)	+0.08 SD
1940	Cornell	6-2	#5	+1.56 SD
1939	Cornell	8-0	#3	+1.61 SD
1938	Cornell	5-1-1	#8	+1.34 SD
1937	Cornell	5-2-1	#10	+1.16 SD

Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).