Coaches / Head coach / Ted Shipkey
Career
35
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak38best 5 yrs
Career35whole career
confidence
Ted Shipkey
Head coach, 1937–1951
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
Stints2
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
1949–1951MontanaHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak38Career35
1937–1951 · 8 seasonsRecord 42-33National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 29: 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 38: best five-season stretch, 1937–1939 at New Mexico (20-9), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
- Career 35 (#507 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (42-33), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Montana | 2-7 | #94 | -1.95 SD |
| 1950 | Montana | 5-5 | #90 | -1.45 SD |
| 1949 | Montana | 5-4 | #93 | -1.83 SD |
| 1941 | New Mexico | 5-4-1 | #87 | -1.76 SD |
| 1940 | New Mexico | 5-4 | #85 | -1.11 SD |
| 1939 | New Mexico | 8-2 | #89 | -1.27 SD |
| 1938 | New Mexico | 8-3 | #77 | -0.87 SD |
| 1937 | New Mexico | 4-4-1 | #89 | -1.38 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).