Daniel Reed, head coach at Cincinnati, Penn State and Cornell
Photo: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Daniel Reed

Daniel Reed went 17–⁠10–⁠1 as a head coach, 1899–⁠1911, at Cincinnati, Penn State and Cornell. Wikipedia’s season articles record two seasons differently (1899, 5–⁠2 and 1900, 3–⁠5–⁠1); by them his record is 25–⁠15–⁠2.

Record
17–⁠10–⁠1 career
Seasons
5
Schools
3
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1911 7–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1544 in 1903
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1899Cincinnati0–⁠1 (Wikipedia: 5–⁠2)
1900Cincinnati0–⁠1 (Wikipedia: 3–⁠5–⁠1)
1901–⁠02: not a college head coach
1903Penn State5–⁠3
1904–⁠09: not a college head coach
1910Cornell5–⁠2–⁠1
1911Cornell7–⁠3

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 rivals42–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer105–⁠4–⁠1
At home1715–⁠1–⁠1
On the road112–⁠9
As our Elo’s favorite1916–⁠2–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog91–⁠8

His own 28 games on file, 1899–⁠1911, 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
Pennsylvaniaseries30–⁠3
Pittsburghseries22–⁠0
Alleghenyseries22–⁠0
Washington & Jeffersonseries22–⁠0
Chicagoseries21–⁠1
Oberlinseries21–⁠0–⁠1
Michiganseries11–⁠0
Hobartseries11–⁠0

Coaching tree

Daniel Reed

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Pop GoldenPenn State, 1903: assistant coachPenn State

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.