Homer Norton

Head coach, 1936–1947

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1936–1947Texas A&MHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak78Career75

1936–1947 · 9 seasonsRecord 57-29National titles 1Great seasons 2 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 78: 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 78: best five-season stretch, 1937–1941 at Texas A&M (38-9, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title), taking over an average program.
Career 75 (#121 since 1936): total accomplishment over 9 seasons (57-29), 1 national title, 2 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
All of it at one program (Texas A&M) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

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
1947	Texas A&M	3-6-1	#39	+0.35 SD
1946	Texas A&M	4-6	#40	+0.29 SD
1945	Texas A&M	6-4	#31 (wartime)	+0.12 SD
1944	Texas A&M	7-4	#23 (wartime)	+0.23 SD
1943	Texas A&M	7-2-1	#17 (wartime)	+0.42 SD
1942	Texas A&M	4-5-1	#21	+0.73 SD
1941	Texas A&M	9-2	#5	+1.27 SD
1940	Texas A&M	9-1	#6	+1.53 SD
1939	Texas A&M	11-0	#1	+1.89 SD
1938	Texas A&M	4-4-1	#42	+0.28 SD
1937	Texas A&M	5-2-2	#23	+0.85 SD
1936	Texas A&M	8-3-1	#21	+0.74 SD

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