Edwin Kimball

Head coach, 1937–1948

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

1946–1948BYUHead Coach

1937–1941BYUHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak33Career42

1937–1948 · 8 seasonsRecord 34-32National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 33: 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 33: best five-season stretch, 1937–1939 at BYU (15-8), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
Career 42 (#494 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (34-32), 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
1948	BYU	5-6	#96	-2.08 SD
1947	BYU	3-7	#92	-1.49 SD
1946	BYU	5-4-1	#88	-1.65 SD
1941	BYU	4-3-2	#77	-1.01 SD
1940	BYU	2-4-2	#86	-1.27 SD
1939	BYU	5-2-2	#93	-1.86 SD
1938	BYU	4-3-1	#81	-0.97 SD
1937	BYU	6-3	#78	-0.66 SD

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