Coaches / Head coach / Len Casanova
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak71best 5 yrs
Career69whole career
confidence
Len Casanova
Head coach, 1946–1966
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs3
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak71Career69
1946–1966 · 21 seasonsRecord 104-94National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 71: 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 71: best five-season stretch, 1960–1964 at Oregon (32-17), taking over an average program.
- Career 69 (#207 since 1936): total accomplishment over 21 seasons (104-94), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Oregon | 3-7 | #62 | -0.15 SD |
| 1965 | Oregon | 4-5-1 | #59 | -0.06 SD |
| 1964 | Oregon | 7-2-1 | #17 | +1.01 SD |
| 1963 | Oregon | 8-3 | #21 | +0.97 SD |
| 1962 | Oregon | 6-3-1 | #21 | +0.85 SD |
| 1961 | Oregon | 4-6 | #44 | +0.14 SD |
| 1960 | Oregon | 7-3-1 | #43 | +0.30 SD |
| 1959 | Oregon | 8-2 | #23 | +0.67 SD |
| 1958 | Oregon | 4-6 | #29 | +0.49 SD |
| 1957 | Oregon | 7-4 | #31 | +0.59 SD |
| 1956 | Oregon | 4-4-2 | #23 | +0.68 SD |
| 1955 | Oregon | 6-4 | #39 | +0.35 SD |
| 1954 | Oregon | 6-4 | #48 | +0.08 SD |
| 1953 | Oregon | 4-5-1 | #58 | -0.25 SD |
| 1952 | Oregon | 2-7-1 | #68 | -0.61 SD |
| 1951 | Oregon | 2-8 | #83 | -0.95 SD |
| 1950 | Pittsburgh | 1-8 | #77 | -0.64 SD |
| 1949 | Santa Clara | 8-2-1 | #6 | +1.35 SD |
| 1948 | Santa Clara | 7-2-1 | #33 | +0.55 SD |
| 1947 | Santa Clara | 4-4 | #66 | -0.40 SD |
| 1946 | Santa Clara | 2-5-1 | #84 | -1.13 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).