Dave Allerdice, head coach at Texas
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Dave Allerdice

Dave Allerdice went 36–⁠11–⁠1 as a head coach, 1911–⁠1915, at Texas and Butler.

One season our game records don’t credit to him comes from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1911 at Butler. It’s marked in the table.

Record
36–⁠11–⁠1 career
Seasons
5
Schools
2
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1914 8–⁠0

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1693 in 1914
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1911Texas5–⁠2
1911Butler *3–⁠4–⁠1
1912Texas7–⁠1
1913Texas7–⁠1
1914Texas8–⁠0
1915Texas6–⁠3T–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 rivals1713–⁠4
Conference games42–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer96–⁠3
At home3431–⁠3
On the road62–⁠4
As our Elo’s favorite3631–⁠5
As our Elo’s underdog42–⁠2

His own 40 games on file, 1911–⁠1915, 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
Bennie Owen 1911–⁠19152–⁠3Oklahoma5

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Southwestern Useries55–⁠0
Oklahomaseries52–⁠3
Baylorseries44–⁠0
Sewaneeseries32–⁠1
Arkansasseries22–⁠0
Ole Missseries22–⁠0
Riceseries22–⁠0
TCUseries22–⁠0

Other roles

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1910MichiganAssistant coach
1911ButlerHead coach
1911–⁠15TexasHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Dave Allerdice

Assistants who became head coaches

  • J. RixSMU, Austin, Southwestern U, Miami
Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Fielding YostMichigan1910Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
J. RixTexas, 1911–⁠13: assistant coachSMU, Austin, Southwestern U, Miami

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.