Coaches / Head coach / Jim Yeager
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak51best 5 yrs
Career52whole career
confidence
Jim Yeager
Head coach, 1937–1947
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
As head coach
Rating—Peak51Career52
1937–1947 · 8 seasonsRecord 35-34National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 51: 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 51: best five-season stretch, 1938–1942 at Iowa State and Colorado (23-19).
- Career 52 (#450 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (35-34), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Colorado | 4-5 | #89 | -1.17 SD |
| 1946 | Colorado | 5-4-1 | #86 | -1.18 SD |
| 1943 | Colorado | 5-2 | #15 (wartime) | +0.48 SD |
| 1942 | Colorado | 7-2 | #67 | -0.49 SD |
| 1941 | Colorado | 3-4-1 | #81 | -1.14 SD |
| 1940 | Iowa State | 4-5 | #81 | -0.89 SD |
| 1939 | Iowa State | 2-7 | #84 | -1.02 SD |
| 1938 | Iowa State | 7-1-1 | #52 | +0.11 SD |
| 1937 | Iowa State | 3-6 | #90 | -1.42 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).