Claude Hunt, head coach at Washington
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Claude Hunt

Claude Hunt went 87–⁠30–⁠6 as a head coach, 1911–⁠1930, at Hillsdale, Carleton and Washington.

17 seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1911–⁠12 at Hillsdale; 1913–⁠16, 1920–⁠30 at Carleton. They’re marked in the table.

Record
87–⁠30–⁠6 career
Seasons
19
Schools
3
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1919 5–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1534 in 1919
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1911Hillsdale *3–⁠2
1912Hillsdale *5–⁠1–⁠1
1913Carleton *6–⁠0
1914Carleton *6–⁠0
1915Carleton *6–⁠0
1916Carleton *6–⁠0
1917Washington1–⁠2–⁠15th
1918: not a college head coach
1919Washington5–⁠1T–1st
1920Carleton *4–⁠1–⁠2
1921Carleton *6–⁠12nd
1922Carleton *4–⁠34th / 5th
1923Carleton *5–⁠2T–2nd / T–1st
1924Carleton *5–⁠21st / 6th
1925Carleton *6–⁠1T–1st
1926Carleton *6–⁠11st
1927Carleton *6–⁠12nd
1928Carleton *2–⁠3–⁠2T–3rd
1929Carleton *2–⁠55th
1930Carleton *3–⁠4T–5th

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. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals31–⁠2
Conference games62–⁠3–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer43–⁠0–⁠1
At home85–⁠2–⁠1
On the road21–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite85–⁠2–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog21–⁠1

His own 10 games on file, 1917–⁠1919, 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
Whitmanseries22–⁠0
Californiaseries21–⁠1
Washington Stateseries21–⁠1
USS New Yorkseries11–⁠0
Pacific Fleetseries11–⁠0
Oregon Stateseries10–⁠0–⁠1
Oregonseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1911–⁠12HillsdaleHead coach
1913–⁠16CarletonHead coach
1917WashingtonHead coach
1919WashingtonHead coach
1920–⁠30CarletonHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Claude Hunt

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Stub AllisonWashington, 1919: assistant coachWashington, California, South Dakota

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.