Arthur Curtis, head coach at Kansas and Wisconsin
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Arthur Curtis

Arthur Curtis went 17–⁠10–⁠1 as a head coach, 1902–⁠1904, at Kansas and Wisconsin.

Record
17–⁠10–⁠1 career
Seasons
3
Schools
2
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1903 6–⁠3–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1584 in 1903
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1902Kansas6–⁠4
1903Wisconsin6–⁠3–⁠18th
1904Wisconsin5–⁠3T–7th

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 rivals52–⁠3
Conference games70–⁠6–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer41–⁠2–⁠1
At home2016–⁠3–⁠1
On the road81–⁠7
As our Elo’s favorite1916–⁠2–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog91–⁠8

His own 28 games on file, 1902–⁠1904, 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
Beloitseries22–⁠0
Knoxseries21–⁠1
Chicagoseries20–⁠2
Michiganseries20–⁠2
Minnesotaseries20–⁠2
Notre Dameseries11–⁠0
Missouriseries11–⁠0
Lawrenceseries11–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1902KansasHead coach
1903–⁠04WisconsinHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Arthur Curtis

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Eddie CochemsWisconsin, 1904: assistant coachClemson, Saint Louis, North Dakota State, Maine

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.