Dick Harlow

Head coach, 1937–1947

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1946–1947HarvardHead Coach

1937–1940HarvardHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak59Career62

1937–1947 · 6 seasonsRecord 27-19National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 59: 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 59: best five-season stretch, 1937–1939 at Harvard (13-10), taking over an average program.

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
1947	Harvard	4-5	#86	-1.02 SD
1946	Harvard	7-2	#47	+0.07 SD
1940	Harvard	3-2-3	#40	+0.21 SD
1939	Harvard	4-4	#76	-0.84 SD
1938	Harvard	4-4	#31	+0.55 SD
1937	Harvard	5-2-1	#15	+1.05 SD

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