Coaches / Head coach / Red Dawson
Career
72
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak74best 5 yrs
Career72whole career
confidence
Red Dawson
Head coach, 1936–1954
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—Peak74Career72
1936–1954 · 9 seasonsRecord 45-30National titles 0Great seasons 1 (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 74: best five-season stretch, 1936–1939 at Tulane (26-10, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
- Career 72 (#163 since 1936): total accomplishment over 9 seasons (45-30), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 2 programs (Tulane).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Pittsburgh | 0-3 | #45 | +0.14 SD |
| 1953 | Pittsburgh | 3-5-1 | #42 | +0.20 SD |
| 1952 | Pittsburgh | 6-3 | #30 | +0.44 SD |
| 1941 | Tulane | 5-4 | #12 | +1.01 SD |
| 1940 | Tulane | 5-5 | #41 | +0.18 SD |
| 1939 | Tulane | 8-1-1 | #2 | +1.80 SD |
| 1938 | Tulane | 7-2-1 | #15 | +1.11 SD |
| 1937 | Tulane | 5-4-1 | #32 | +0.51 SD |
| 1936 | Tulane | 6-3-1 | #24 | +0.64 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).