A.E. Brides, head coach at North Carolina
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A.E. Brides

A.E. Brides went 20–⁠23–⁠4 as a head coach, 1909–⁠1915, at North Carolina and Massachusetts.

Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1912–⁠15 at Massachusetts. They’re marked in the table.

Record
20–⁠23–⁠4 career
Seasons
6
Schools
2
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1909 5–⁠2

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1535 in 1909
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1909North Carolina5–⁠2
1910North Carolina3–⁠6
1911: not a college head coach
1912Massachusetts *2–⁠5–⁠2
1913Massachusetts *4–⁠3
1914Massachusetts *2–⁠5
1915Massachusetts *4–⁠2–⁠2

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals43–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer84–⁠4
At home66–⁠0
On the road102–⁠8
As our Elo’s favorite76–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog92–⁠7

His own 16 games on file, 1909–⁠1910, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Wake Forestseries22–⁠0
Georgetownseries21–⁠1
VMIseries21–⁠1
Washington and Leeseries21–⁠1
Virginia Techseries20–⁠2
Richmondseries11–⁠0
South Carolinaseries11–⁠0
Tennesseeseries11–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1909–⁠10North CarolinaHead coach
1911YaleLine coach
1912–⁠15MassachusettsHead coach
1916YaleLine coach
1917YaleActing head coach
1919–⁠20YaleLine coach
1924–⁠25ColumbiaLine coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

A.E. Brides
Worked under (6)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
John FieldYale1911Line coach
Tad JonesYale1916–⁠20Line coach
Albert SharpeYale1919Line coach
Paul WithingtonColumbia1924Line coach
Percy HaughtonColumbia1924Line coach
Charles CrowleyColumbia1925Line coach

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.