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Alvin Twitchell, head coach at BYU
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Alvin Twitchell

Alvin Twitchell went 5–⁠13–⁠1 as a head coach, 1922–⁠1924, at BYU.

Record
5–⁠13–⁠1 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1924 2–⁠3–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1396 in 1924
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1922BYU1–⁠58th
1923BYU2–⁠5T–8th
1924BYU2–⁠3–⁠19th

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals60–⁠6
Conference games173–⁠13–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer63–⁠2–⁠1
At home73–⁠4
On the road122–⁠9–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite64–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog131–⁠11–⁠1

His own 19 games on file, 1922–⁠1924, 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.

Against other head coaches

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
E. Lowell Romney 1922–⁠19240–⁠3Utah State3
Thomas Fitzpatrick 1922–⁠19240–⁠3Utah3

Alvin Twitchell’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Utahseries30–⁠3
Utah Stateseries30–⁠3
Western Coloradoseries22–⁠0
Montana Stateseries21–⁠1
Colorado Collegeseries21–⁠1
Wyomingseries21–⁠1
Colorado Stateseries20–⁠2
Colorado School of Minesseries20–⁠1–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1922–⁠24BYUHead coach
1941Pueblo Centennial HS (CO) high schoolHead coach

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