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Curley Byrd, head coach at Maryland
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Curley Byrd

Curley Byrd went 109–⁠79–⁠14 as a head coach, 1911–⁠1934, at Maryland. Wikipedia’s season articles record three seasons differently (1913, 6–⁠3, 1916, 6–⁠2 and 1925, 2–⁠5–⁠1); by them his record is 119–⁠82–⁠15.

Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1911–⁠12, 1914–⁠15 at Maryland (on file under another coach). They’re marked in the table.

Record
109–⁠79–⁠14 career
Seasons
24
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1931 8–⁠1–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1565 in 1931
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1911Maryland *2–⁠0
1912Maryland *6–⁠1–⁠1
1913Maryland0–⁠1 (Wikipedia: 6–⁠3)
1914Maryland *5–⁠3
1915Maryland *6–⁠3
1916Maryland1–⁠1 (Wikipedia: 6–⁠2)
1917Maryland4–⁠3–⁠1T–4th
1918Maryland4–⁠1–⁠1T–2nd
1919Maryland5–⁠42nd
1920Maryland7–⁠22nd
1921Maryland3–⁠5–⁠16th
1922Maryland4–⁠5–⁠1T–11th
1923Maryland7–⁠2–⁠1T–8th
1924Maryland3–⁠3–⁠316th
1925Maryland3–⁠5 (Wikipedia: 2–⁠5–⁠1)T–20th
1926Maryland5–⁠4–⁠117th
1927Maryland4–⁠715th
1928Maryland6–⁠3–⁠1T–14th
1929Maryland4–⁠4–⁠217th
1930Maryland7–⁠5T–6th
1931Maryland8–⁠1–⁠15th
1932Maryland5–⁠616th
1933Maryland3–⁠79th
1934Maryland7–⁠3T–3rd

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 rivals238–⁠13–⁠2
Conference games7229–⁠37–⁠6
Decided by 8 points or fewer7634–⁠29–⁠13
At home9267–⁠19–⁠6
On the road8323–⁠53–⁠7
As our Elo’s favorite10171–⁠23–⁠7
As our Elo’s underdog7419–⁠49–⁠6

His own 175 games on file, 1913–⁠1934, 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
W.C. Raftery 1927–⁠19345–⁠2–⁠1VMI8
Tad Jones 1921–⁠19271–⁠6Yale7
William Fetzer 1921–⁠19252–⁠3North Carolina5
B.C. Cubbage 1921–⁠19251–⁠4Virginia Tech5
Chuck Collins 1926–⁠19301–⁠4North Carolina5
Earl Abell 1917–⁠19302–⁠0–⁠2VMI, Virginia4
Harry Hartsell 1917–⁠19232–⁠1–⁠1NC State4
Jimmy DeHart 1924–⁠19322–⁠2Washington and Lee4
Andy Gustafson 1926–⁠19292–⁠2Virginia Tech4
Greasy Neale 1925–⁠19281–⁠2–⁠1Virginia4

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Johns Hopkinsseries1713–⁠1–⁠3
Virginia Techseries167–⁠9
VMIseries117–⁠2–⁠2
Virginiaseries115–⁠4–⁠2
North Carolinaseries114–⁠7
Yaleseries112–⁠8–⁠1
Washington (Maryland)series1010–⁠0
Washington and Leeseries105–⁠5

Career

YearsTeamJob
1911–⁠34MarylandHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Curley Byrd

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Jack FaberMaryland, 1933–⁠34: assistant coachMaryland

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.