HUSKER TRIVIA

What Nebraska football coach has the most wins after Osborne and Devaney?

  • Bill Callahan

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  • Frank Solich

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  • Dana Bible

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Walter "Bummy" Booth

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ewald "Jumbo" Steihm

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jayhawk

jayhawk

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I won't answer, cause I done looked it up! I will post an answer, so please just make your guess....

 
huKSer said:
AZ4NE1 said:
huKSer said:
jayhawk said:
I won't answer, cause I done looked it up! I will post an answer, so please just make your guess....
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Name the top three in order by winning percentage!
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1)Bo

2)Tom

3)Bob
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Here's the answer to top winning percentage:

1) Bo

2) Stiehm

3) Booth

4) Tom

5) Bob

6) Frankie
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Bo don't count at any statistical minimium but 1, and if he does, you missed to who matched or beat 1-0...

Dr. Langdon Frothingham 2-0

J.S. Williams 1-0

Steihm's 91%+ winning percentage, considering he did coach 40 games, is pretty amazing. That gives a half point for ties, take those out and the coach went 40 games and only lost TWICE. I would say minimum 7 or 8 games, something resembling a season....

2/3 of NU coaches have had winning records

 
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Anyone have their records?

I found this while trying to google it..(Still looking)

Most Winningest NCAA Football Coaches

All-Division-All-time: Larry Kehres - Mount Union .923 (as of 12/10/07)

Major-College-All-Time: Knute Rockne - Notre Dame .881 Frank Leahy - Notre Dame .864

Major-College-Modern Era: Barry Switzer - Oklahoma .837 Tom Osborne - Nebraska .836

Major-College-Active: Bob Stoops - Oklahoma .848

 
The Wikipedia thing is looking good...Nebraska Cornhuskers football

list of head football coaches

This table is a list of head football coaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

Coach First Season Last Season Record

Langdon Frothingham 1890 2-0-0 (1.000)

T. U. Lyman 1891 1

J. S. Williams 1892 1

Frank Crawford 1893 1894 9-4-1 (.679)

Charles Thomas 1895 6-3-0 (.667)

E. N. Robinson 1896 1897 11-4-1 (.719)

Fielding Yost 1898 8-3-0 (.727)

A. Edwin Branch 1899 1-7-1 (.167)

Walter C. Booth 1900 1905 46-8-1 (.845)

Amos Foster 1906 6-4-0 (.600)

W. C. Cole 1907 1910 25-8-3 (.736)

Ewald O. Stiehm 1911 1915 35-2-3 (.913)

E. J. Stewart 1916 1917 11-4-0 (.733)

William G. Kline 1918 2-3-1 (.417)

Henry Schulte 1919 1920 8-6-3 (.559)

Fred Dawson 1921 1924 23-7-2 (.750)

Ernest E. Bearg 1925 1928 23-7-3 (.742)

Dana X. Bible 1929 1936 50-15-7 (.743)

Lawrence McCeney Jones 1937 1941 28-14-4 (.652)

Glenn Presnell 1942 3-7-0 (.300)

Adolph J. Lewandowski 1943 1944 4-12-0 (.250)

George Clark 1945 4-5-0 (.455)

Bernard Masterson 1946 1947 5-13-0 (.278)

George Clark 1948 2-8-0 (.200)

Bill Glassford 1949 1955 31-35-3 (.471)

Pete Elliott 1956 4-6-0 (.400)

Bill Jennings 1957 1961 15-34-1 (.310)

Bob Devaney 1962 1972 101-20-2 (.829)

Tom Osborne 1973 1997 255-49-3 (.836)

Frank Solich 1998 2003 58-19 (.753)

Bo Pelini (interim) 2003 1-0 (1.000) 2

Bill Callahan 2004 2007 27-22 (.551)

Bo Pelini 2008

[edit] Footnotes

Note 1: Coached for only game; the team did not have a coach for every other game that season.

Note 2: Pelini served as interim coach for the 2003 Alamo Bowl.

 
HUSKER 37 said:
The Wikipedia thing is looking good...Nebraska Cornhuskers football

list of head football coaches

This table is a list of head football coaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

Coach First Season Last Season Record

Langdon Frothingham 1890 2-0-0 (1.000)

T. U. Lyman 1891 1

J. S. Williams 1892 1

Frank Crawford 1893 1894 9-4-1 (.679)

Charles Thomas 1895 6-3-0 (.667)

E. N. Robinson 1896 1897 11-4-1 (.719)

Fielding Yost 1898 8-3-0 (.727)

A. Edwin Branch 1899 1-7-1 (.167)

Walter C. Booth 1900 1905 46-8-1 (.845)

Amos Foster 1906 6-4-0 (.600)

W. C. Cole 1907 1910 25-8-3 (.736)

Ewald O. Stiehm 1911 1915 35-2-3 (.913)

E. J. Stewart 1916 1917 11-4-0 (.733)

William G. Kline 1918 2-3-1 (.417)

Henry Schulte 1919 1920 8-6-3 (.559)

Fred Dawson 1921 1924 23-7-2 (.750)

Ernest E. Bearg 1925 1928 23-7-3 (.742)

Dana X. Bible 1929 1936 50-15-7 (.743)

Lawrence McCeney Jones 1937 1941 28-14-4 (.652)

Glenn Presnell 1942 3-7-0 (.300)

Adolph J. Lewandowski 1943 1944 4-12-0 (.250)

George Clark 1945 4-5-0 (.455)

Bernard Masterson 1946 1947 5-13-0 (.278)

George Clark 1948 2-8-0 (.200)

Bill Glassford 1949 1955 31-35-3 (.471)

Pete Elliott 1956 4-6-0 (.400)

Bill Jennings 1957 1961 15-34-1 (.310)

Bob Devaney 1962 1972 101-20-2 (.829)

Tom Osborne 1973 1997 255-49-3 (.836)

Frank Solich 1998 2003 58-19 (.753)

Bo Pelini (interim) 2003 1-0 (1.000) 2

Bill Callahan 2004 2007 27-22 (.551)

Bo Pelini 2008

[edit] Footnotes

Note 1: Coached for only game; the team did not have a coach for every other game that season.

Note 2: Pelini served as interim coach for the 2003 Alamo Bowl.
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Wikipedia is not a primary source. It has lots of errors. As a teacher I don't accept it as a reference.

From Huskers.com

Bo Pelini, 2003 (Interim), 2008

1.000

Ewald O. "Jumbo" Stiehm, 1911-15

.913

Walter C. "Bummy" Booth, 1900-05

.845

Tom Osborne, 1973-1997

.836

Bob Devaney, 1962-72

.829

Frank Solich, 1998-2003

.753

Fred Dawson, 1921-24

.750

Dana X. Bible, 1929-36

.743

Ernest E. Bearg, 1925-28

.742

William C. "King" Cole, 1907-10

.736

Edward "Doc" Stewart, 1916-17

.733

Fielding Yost, 1898

.727

Edward. N. Robinson, 1896-97

.719

Frank Crawford, 1893-94

.679

Charles Thomas, 1895

.667

Lawrence "Biff" Jones, 1937-41

.652

Amos Foster, 1906

.600

Bill Callahan, 2004-07

.551

Henry F. Schulte, 1919-20

.559

Bill Glassford, 1949-55

.471

William G. Kline, 1918

.417

Pete Elliott, 1956

.400

George "Potsy" Clark, 1945, 1948

.316

Bill Jennings, 1957-61

.310

Glenn Presnell, 1942

.300

Bernie Masterson, 1946-47

.278

Adolph Lewandowski, 1943-44

.250

A. Edwin Branch, 1899

.164

 
Bah...didn't need to look at no new-fangled web site to find that stuff out. I was alive back then to see it I tell ya!

Actually...Jumbo's time at NU was pretty awe-inspiring. Nebraska outscored their opponents 1115-165 over that 5 year span. For anybody interested...here's a list of opponents played, the record against that opponent and the total score for all games played against that opponent over those five years

Adrian (Better known as Rocky's wife in the movie) 1-0/41-0

Bellevue (The town - not the hospital) 1-0/81-0

Doane (Back-Ache relief in a pill form was invented here) 2-0/81-6

Drake (The Fighting Lawyers) 1-0/48-13

Haskell (Most famous graduate - Eddie) 1-0/7-6

Iowa (Felons were allowed to play back in the day) 3-0/80-14

Iowa State (Even back then, we still came THIS close...)3-0-1/65-22

Kansas (The tradition lives on...) 5-0/120-3

Kansas State (Worse than Kansas even back then?) 5-0/175-12

Kearney (The ultimate defeat) 1-0/117-0

Michigan (Shades of things to come?) 0-0-1/6-6

Michigan State (just because Michigan came close doesn't mean YOU will) 1-0/24-0

Minnesota (You'll never live this one down) 1-2/10-34

Missouri (could only afford to send defensive squad) 2-0/41-0

Morningside (Evening Shade cancelled) 1-0/34-7

Nebraska Wesleyan (Real nice...beating up on the evangelicals) 2-0/72-7

Notre Dame (Oops...who was the idiot that scehduled THIS one?) 1-0/20-19

Oklahoma (Switzer's first loss) 1-0/13-9

South Dakota (I don't really think there WAS a game...SD just made it up) 0-0-1/0-0

Washburn (Charter member of the Big 1 Conference...Only member of Big 1 Conference) 3-0/80-7

 
jayhawk said:
Here is what i had...

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_i...ing_records.php

College Football Data Warehouse is ELITE...

You can even see how each season went, school records, etc. There is a lot on that site, and since it has all the details to support it's information, plus is a managed site, I would say it is a good reference.
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I'm impressed - you picked a website that has KU 4-5-1 instead of 6-3-1 in 1960. This includes KU forfeiting to CU and MU (and another bone of contention in the border war or battle or conflict or police action or slight disagrement or whatever is politically correct these days.)

 
huKSer said:
jayhawk said:
Here is what i had...

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_i...ing_records.php

College Football Data Warehouse is ELITE...

You can even see how each season went, school records, etc. There is a lot on that site, and since it has all the details to support it's information, plus is a managed site, I would say it is a good reference.
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I'm impressed - you picked a website that has KU 4-5-1 instead of 6-3-1 in 1960. This includes KU forfeiting to CU and MU (and another bone of contention in the border war or battle or conflict or police action or slight disagrement or whatever is politically correct these days.)
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I think they go with the NCAA stats, I do not have to agree with every ruling, but the site is cool and they aren't going to use the NCAA recognized stats EXCEPT where Kansas disagrees....

 
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