George Sauer

Head coach, 1946–1955

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

Chemistry

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Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1950–1955BaylorHead Coach

1948–1949NavyHead Coach

1946–1947KansasHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak76Career71

1946–1955 · 10 seasonsRecord 56-37National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 76: 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 76: best five-season stretch, 1950–1954 at Baylor (33-16, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 71 (#169 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (56-37), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 3 programs (Baylor).

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	Baylor	5-5	#27	+0.64 SD
1954	Baylor	7-4	#15	+1.06 SD
1953	Baylor	7-3	#16	+0.95 SD
1952	Baylor	4-4-2	#42	+0.23 SD
1951	Baylor	8-2-1	#9	+1.33 SD
1950	Baylor	7-3	#13	+1.09 SD
1949	Navy	3-5-1	#42	+0.12 SD
1948	Navy	0-8-1	#61	-0.23 SD
1947	Kansas	8-1-2	#28	+0.57 SD
1946	Kansas	7-2-1	#63	-0.29 SD

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