Coaches / Head coach / Edward Anderson
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak72best 5 yrs
Career58whole career
confidence
Edward Anderson
Head coach, 1938–1964
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak72Career58
1938–1964 · 24 seasonsRecord 125-94National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 52: 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 72: best five-season stretch, 1938–1940 at Holy Cross and Iowa (18-6, 1 top-10 season by team strength).
- Career 58 (#365 since 1936): total accomplishment over 24 seasons (125-94), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 2 programs (Iowa).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Holy Cross | 5-5 | #90 | -0.90 SD |
| 1963 | Holy Cross | 2-6-1 | #91 | -1.02 SD |
| 1962 | Holy Cross | 6-4 | #81 | -0.66 SD |
| 1961 | Holy Cross | 7-3 | #67 | -0.51 SD |
| 1960 | Holy Cross | 6-4 | #67 | -0.43 SD |
| 1959 | Holy Cross | 6-4 | #77 | -1.07 SD |
| 1958 | Holy Cross | 6-3 | #71 | -0.50 SD |
| 1957 | Holy Cross | 5-3-1 | #53 | -0.11 SD |
| 1956 | Holy Cross | 5-3-1 | #72 | -0.62 SD |
| 1955 | Holy Cross | 6-4 | #80 | -1.01 SD |
| 1954 | Holy Cross | 3-7 | #79 | -0.95 SD |
| 1953 | Holy Cross | 5-5 | #54 | -0.14 SD |
| 1952 | Holy Cross | 8-2 | #44 | +0.21 SD |
| 1951 | Holy Cross | 8-2 | #20 | +0.77 SD |
| 1950 | Holy Cross | 4-5-1 | #72 | -0.48 SD |
| 1949 | Iowa | 4-5 | #29 | +0.54 SD |
| 1948 | Iowa | 4-5 | #45 | +0.11 SD |
| 1947 | Iowa | 3-5-1 | #50 | +0.08 SD |
| 1946 | Iowa | 5-4 | #10 | +1.16 SD |
| 1942 | Iowa | 6-4 | #38 | +0.21 SD |
| 1941 | Iowa | 3-5 | #44 | +0.22 SD |
| 1940 | Iowa | 4-4 | #30 | +0.46 SD |
| 1939 | Iowa | 6-1-1 | #43 | +0.22 SD |
| 1938 | Holy Cross | 8-1 | #5 | +1.69 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).