Cecil Ingram, head coach at Clemson
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Cecil Ingram

Cecil Ingram went 12–⁠21 as a head coach, 1970–⁠1972, at Clemson.

Record
12–⁠21 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1971 5–⁠6

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1429 in 1971
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1970Clemson3–⁠86th
1971Clemson5–⁠62nd
1972Clemson4–⁠75th

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 teams61–⁠5
Against top-10 teams30–⁠3
Against rivals132–⁠11
Conference games188–⁠10
Decided by 8 points or fewer84–⁠4
At home167–⁠9
On the road164–⁠12
At neutral sites11–⁠0
As our Elo’s favorite96–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog246–⁠18

His own 33 games on file, 1970–⁠1972, 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
Paul Dietzel 1970–⁠19722–⁠1South Carolina3
Bill Dooley 1970–⁠19720–⁠3North Carolina3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Virginiaseries33–⁠0
Marylandseries32–⁠1
Wake Forestseries32–⁠1
South Carolinaseries32–⁠1
Dukeseries31–⁠2
Georgia Techseries30–⁠3
North Carolinaseries30–⁠3
The Citadelseries22–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1956Manatee HS (FL) high schoolBackfield coach
1957Brookwood HS (AL) high schoolHead coach
1958–⁠59Tuscaloosa County HS (AL) high schoolHead coach
1960Wake ForestDefensive backs coach
1961–⁠63VPIDefensive backs coach
1964–⁠66GeorgiaDefensive backs coach
1967–⁠69ArkansasDefensive backs coach
1970–⁠72ClemsonHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Cecil Ingram

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (4)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Billy HildebrandWake Forest1960Defensive backs coach
Jerry ClaiborneVirginia Tech1961–⁠63Defensive backs coach
Vince DooleyGeorgia1964–⁠66Defensive backs coach
Frank BroylesArkansas1967–⁠69Defensive backs coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Doug BarfieldClemson, 1970–⁠71: offensive backs coachAuburn
George MacIntyreClemson, 1970–⁠72: defensive backs coachVanderbilt, UT Martin
Jimmye LaycockClemson, 1971–⁠72: assistant coachWilliam & Mary

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.