Bill Osmanski

Bill Osmanski went 6–⁠14 as a head coach in the games on file: 1948 at Holy Cross and 1949 at Holy Cross. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records.

Record
6–⁠14 games on file
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1948 5–⁠5

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1487 in 1948
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1948Holy Cross5–⁠5
1949Holy Cross1–⁠9

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 rivals31–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer114–⁠7
At home94–⁠5
On the road112–⁠9
As our Elo’s favorite126–⁠6
As our Elo’s underdog80–⁠8

His own 20 games on file, 1948–⁠1949, 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
Georgetownseries21–⁠1
Syracuseseries21–⁠1
Templeseries21–⁠1
Colgateseries21–⁠1
Duquesneseries21–⁠1
Boston Collegeseries20–⁠2
Harvardseries20–⁠2
Dartmouthseries20–⁠2

Also a player: Bill Osmanski’s playing career.

Coaching tree

Bill Osmanski

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
J.P. MoranHoly Cross, 1949: line coachSouth Carolina, Niagara

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.