Coaches / Head coach / Red Blaik
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak82best 5 yrs
Career81whole career
confidence
Red Blaik
Head coach, 1936–1958
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
1936–1940DartmouthHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak82Career81
1936–1958 · 20 seasonsRecord 127-41National 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 82: best five-season stretch, 1946–1950 at Army (39-3, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title), taking over an average program.
- Career 81 (#51 since 1936): total accomplishment over 20 seasons (127-41), 1 national title, 2 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Proven at 2 programs: Dartmouth · Army.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Army | 8-0-1 | #5 | +1.49 SD |
| 1957 | Army | 7-2 | #21 | +0.84 SD |
| 1956 | Army | 5-3-1 | #47 | +0.15 SD |
| 1955 | Army | 6-3 | #40 | +0.32 SD |
| 1954 | Army | 7-2 | #21 | +0.87 SD |
| 1953 | Army | 7-1-1 | #31 | +0.48 SD |
| 1952 | Army | 4-4-1 | #44 | +0.21 SD |
| 1951 | Army | 2-7 | #75 | -0.73 SD |
| 1950 | Army | 8-1 | #6 | +1.34 SD |
| 1949 | Army | 9-0 | #10 | +1.27 SD |
| 1948 | Army | 8-0-1 | #7 | +1.38 SD |
| 1947 | Army | 5-2-2 | #10 | +1.28 SD |
| 1946 | Army | 9-0-1 | #2 | +1.99 SD |
| 1945 | Army | 9-0 | #1 (wartime) | +2.95 SD |
| 1944 | Army | 9-0 | #1 (wartime) | +2.14 SD |
| 1943 | Army | 7-2-1 | #12 (wartime) | +0.81 SD |
| 1942 | Army | 6-3 | #23 | +0.59 SD |
| 1941 | Army | 5-3-1 | #43 | +0.26 SD |
| 1940 | Dartmouth | 5-4 | #55 | -0.05 SD |
| 1939 | Dartmouth | 5-3-1 | #55 | -0.07 SD |
| 1938 | Dartmouth | 7-2 | #7 | +1.39 SD |
| 1937 | Dartmouth | 7-0-2 | #1 | +2.23 SD |
| 1936 | Dartmouth | 7-1-1 | #26 | +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).