Coaches / Head coach / George Barclay
Career
61
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak60best 5 yrs
Career61whole career
confidence
George Barclay
Head coach, 1949–1955
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
1949–1951Washington and LeeHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak60Career61
1949–1955 · 6 seasonsRecord 28-30National 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 60: 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 60: best five-season stretch, 1949–1951 at Washington and Lee (17-12), taking over a losing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | North Carolina | 3-7 | #62 | -0.40 SD |
| 1954 | North Carolina | 4-5-1 | #62 | -0.40 SD |
| 1953 | North Carolina | 4-6 | #59 | -0.28 SD |
| 1951 | Washington and Lee | 6-4 | #29 | +0.54 SD |
| 1950 | Washington and Lee | 8-3 | #45 | +0.15 SD |
| 1949 | Washington and Lee | 3-5-1 | #73 | -0.61 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).