Dave Hart, head coach at Pittsburgh
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Dave Hart

Dave Hart went 3–⁠27 as a head coach, 1966–⁠1968, at Pittsburgh.

Record
3–⁠27 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1966 1–⁠9

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1346 in 1966
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1966Pittsburgh1–⁠9
1967Pittsburgh1–⁠9
1968Pittsburgh1–⁠9

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 teams80–⁠8
Against top-10 teams50–⁠5
Against rivals121–⁠11
Decided by 8 points or fewer62–⁠4
At home152–⁠13
On the road151–⁠14
As our Elo’s favorite10–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog293–⁠26

His own 30 games on file, 1966–⁠1968, 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
Jim Carlen 1966–⁠19681–⁠2West Virginia3
Ara Parseghian 1966–⁠19680–⁠3Notre Dame3
Ben Schwartzwalder 1966–⁠19680–⁠3Syracuse3
Charlie Tate 1966–⁠19680–⁠3Miami3
Joe Paterno 1966–⁠19680–⁠3Penn State3
Thomas Cahill 1966–⁠19680–⁠3Army3
Tommy Prothro 1966–⁠19680–⁠3UCLA3
William Elias 1966–⁠19680–⁠3Navy3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
West Virginiaseries31–⁠2
UCLAseries30–⁠3
Notre Dameseries30–⁠3
Syracuseseries30–⁠3
Penn Stateseries30–⁠3
Armyseries30–⁠3
Miamiseries30–⁠3
Navyseries30–⁠3

Career

YearsTeamJob
1962–⁠63KentuckyAssistant coach
1964–⁠65NavyDefensive backs coach
1966–⁠68PittsburghHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Dave Hart

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (3)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Charley BradshawKentucky1962–⁠63Assistant coach
Wayne HardinNavy1964Defensive backs coach
William EliasNavy1965Defensive backs coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bill LewisPittsburgh, 1966–⁠68: defensive backs coachWyoming, East Carolina, Georgia Tech
Frank CignettiPittsburgh, 1966–⁠68: assistant coachWest Virginia, IU Pennsylvania
Lou TepperPittsburgh, 1967: graduate assistantIllinois, Edinboro, IU Pennsylvania

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.