Dave Holmes
Dave Holmes went 74–27–1 as a head coach, 1963–1973, at Eastern Washington and Hawaii. Share
Nine seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1963–67 at Eastern Washington; 1968, 1970, 1972–73 at Hawaii (on file under another coach). They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 74–27–1 career
- Seasons
- 10
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 1971 7–4
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Eastern Washington * | 3–6 | T–4th | |||
| 1964 | Eastern Washington * | 5–4 | T–2nd | |||
| 1965 | Eastern Washington * | 8–1 | 1st | |||
| 1966 | Eastern Washington * | 7–1–1 | 1st | |||
| 1967 | Eastern Washington * | 11–1 | 1st | NAIA Championship L | ||
| 1968 | Hawaii * | 7–3 | ||||
| 1969: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1970 | Hawaii * | 9–2 | ||||
| 1971 | Hawai’i | 7–4 | ||||
| 1972 | Hawaii * | 8–3 | ||||
| 1973 | Hawaii * | 9–2 | ||||
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 game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| At home | 9 | 7–2 | 78% |
| On the road | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 6 | 6–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
His own 11 games on file, 1971, 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
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Montanaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| New Mexicoseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Linfieldseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| New Mexico Highlandsseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Santa Claraseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| California–Santa Barbaraseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Cal State Los Angelesseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Nebraskaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952–54 | Tonasket HS (WA) high school | Head coach | |
| 1955–62 | North Central HS (WA) high school | Head coach | |
| 1963–67 | Eastern Washington | Head coach | |
| 1968–73 | Hawaii | Head coach | |
| 1974–84 | University HS (WA) high school | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Assistants who became head coaches
- Larry PriceHawai’i
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larry Price | Hawai’i, 1968–73: assistant coach | Hawai’i |
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.