Dallas Ward

Head coach, 1948–1958

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1948–1958ColoradoHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak73Career63

1948–1958 · 11 seasonsRecord 63-41National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 73: 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 73: best five-season stretch, 1950–1954 at Colorado (31-15), taking over a losing program.
Career 63 (#292 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (63-41), 0 national titles, 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
1958	Colorado	6-4	#43	+0.21 SD
1957	Colorado	6-3-1	#42	+0.24 SD
1956	Colorado	8-2-1	#29	+0.57 SD
1955	Colorado	6-4	#43	+0.17 SD
1954	Colorado	7-2-1	#34	+0.46 SD
1953	Colorado	6-4	#49	+0.04 SD
1952	Colorado	6-2-2	#34	+0.41 SD
1951	Colorado	7-3	#43	+0.31 SD
1950	Colorado	5-4-1	#51	+0.06 SD
1949	Colorado	3-7	#87	-1.10 SD
1948	Colorado	3-6	#77	-0.96 SD

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