Bill Beall, head coach at Baylor
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Bill Beall

Bill Beall went 3–⁠28 as a head coach, 1969–⁠1971, at Baylor.

Record
3–⁠28 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1970 2–⁠9

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1300 in 1970
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1969Baylor0–⁠108th
1970Baylor2–⁠97th
1971Baylor1–⁠98th

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 ranked teams80–⁠8
Against top-10 teams40–⁠4
Against rivals121–⁠11
Conference games211–⁠20
Decided by 8 points or fewer112–⁠9
At home132–⁠11
On the road181–⁠17
As our Elo’s favorite21–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog292–⁠27

His own 31 games on file, 1969–⁠1971, 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
Gene Stallings 1969–⁠19711–⁠2Texas A&M3
Darrell Royal 1969–⁠19710–⁠3Texas3
Frank Broyles 1969–⁠19710–⁠3Arkansas3
Hayden Fry 1969–⁠19710–⁠3SMU3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Texas A&Mseries31–⁠2
Arkansasseries30–⁠3
Riceseries30–⁠3
Texasseries30–⁠3
SMUseries30–⁠3
TCUseries30–⁠3
Texas Techseries30–⁠3
LSUseries20–⁠2

Career

YearsTeamJob
1950–⁠51Osceola HS (AR) high schoolAssistant coach
1952–⁠54Osceola HS (AR) high schoolHead coach
1955Arkansas StateBackfield coach
1956–⁠60RiceAssistant coach
1961–⁠68LSUAssistant coach
1969–⁠71BaylorHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Bill Beall

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (3)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Jess NeelyRice1956–⁠60Assistant coach
Paul DietzelLSU1961Assistant coach
Charles McClendonLSU1962–⁠68Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Pat CulpepperBaylor, 1969–⁠71: defensive coordinatorNorthern Illinois

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.