Coaches / Head coach / Frank Kimbrough
Career
44
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak52best 5 yrs
Career44whole career
confidence
Frank Kimbrough
Head coach, 1939–1957
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs4
Stints5
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
1947–1957West TexasHead Coach
1943North Carolina Pre-FlightHead Coach
1939–1940Hardin SimmonsHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak52Career44
1939–1957 · 16 seasonsRecord 80-71National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 44: 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 52: best five-season stretch, 1939–1942 at Hardin Simmons and Baylor (25-11).
- Career 44 (#489 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (80-71), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | West Texas | 7-3 | #54 | -0.13 SD |
| 1956 | West Texas | 8-2 | #46 | +0.24 SD |
| 1955 | West Texas | 4-4-1 | #65 | -0.44 SD |
| 1954 | West Texas | 1-8 | #86 | -1.30 SD |
| 1953 | West Texas | 1-8-1 | #92 | -2.00 SD |
| 1952 | West Texas | 3-6 | #89 | -2.08 SD |
| 1951 | West Texas | 2-7 | #95 | -2.19 SD |
| 1950 | West Texas | 10-1 | #20 | +0.94 SD |
| 1949 | West Texas | 5-4 | #82 | -0.90 SD |
| 1948 | West Texas | 6-5 | #87 | -1.27 SD |
| 1947 | West Texas | 7-4 | #78 | -0.68 SD |
| 1946 | Baylor | 1-8 | #75 | -0.64 SD |
| 1945 | Baylor | 5-5-1 | #44 (wartime) | -0.36 SD |
| 1943 | North Carolina Pre-Flight | 2-4-1 | #46 (wartime) | -0.86 SD |
| 1942 | Baylor | 6-4-1 | #38 | +0.21 SD |
| 1941 | Baylor | 3-6-1 | #42 | +0.28 SD |
| 1940 | Hardin Simmons | 9-0 | #42 | +0.16 SD |
| 1939 | Hardin Simmons | 7-1-1 | #68 | -0.43 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).