Clark Shaughnessy

Head coach, 1936–1946

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

Chemistry

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Programs4

Stints5

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1946MarylandHead Coach

1943–1945PittsburghHead Coach

1942MarylandHead Coach

1940–1941StanfordHead Coach

1936–1939ChicagoHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak56Career54

1936–1946 · 8 seasonsRecord 32-34National titles 1Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 56: 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 56: best five-season stretch, 1939–1946 at Chicago and Stanford and Maryland (28-17, 1 top-10 season by team strength, 1 national title).
Career 54 (#421 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (32-34), 1 national title, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.

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
1946	Maryland	3-6	#80	-0.71 SD
1945	Pittsburgh	3-7	#41 (wartime)	-0.21 SD
1944	Pittsburgh	4-5	#38 (wartime)	-0.22 SD
1943	Pittsburgh	3-5	#38 (wartime)	-0.51 SD
1942	Maryland	7-2	#74	-0.82 SD
1941	Stanford	6-3	#18	+0.88 SD
1940	Stanford	10-0	#8	+1.45 SD
1939	Chicago	2-6	#96	-2.61 SD
1938	Chicago	1-6-1	#96	-2.03 SD
1937	Chicago	1-6	#83	-1.22 SD
1936	Chicago	2-5-1	#82	-1.24 SD

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