Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham went 0–⁠5–⁠1 as a head coach, 1921, at SMU.

Record
0–⁠5–⁠1 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1921 1–⁠6–⁠1

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1921SMU interim, final 6 games0–⁠5–⁠1

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals20–⁠2
Conference games30–⁠3
Decided by 8 points or fewer30–⁠2–⁠1
At home30–⁠2–⁠1
On the road30–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite20–⁠1–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog40–⁠4

His own six games on file, 1921, 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
Arkansasseries10–⁠1
Baylorseries10–⁠1
Riceseries10–⁠1
Southwestern Useries10–⁠0–⁠1
TCUseries10–⁠1
Austinseries10–⁠1

Coaching tree

Bill Cunningham

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Ray MorrisonSMU, 1921: assistant coachSMU, Vanderbilt, Temple, Austin

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.