Eddie Cameron
Eddie Cameron went 25–11–1 as a head coach in the games on file: 1942 at Duke, 1943 at Duke, 1944 at Duke and 1945 at Duke. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records. Share
- Record
- 25–11–1 games on file
- Seasons
- 4
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 1943 8–1
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Duke | 5–4–1 | |||
| 1943 | Duke | 8–1 | |||
| 1944 | Duke | 6–4 | Sugar Bowl W | ||
| 1945 | Duke | 6–2 |
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 9 | 4–5 | 44% |
| Against top-10 teams | 7 | 2–5 | 29% |
| Against rivals | 16 | 13–2–1 | 84% |
| Conference games | 17 | 15–1–1 | 91% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 11 | 7–3–1 | 68% |
| At home | 18 | 14–4 | 78% |
| On the road | 14 | 8–5–1 | 61% |
| At neutral sites | 5 | 3–2 | 60% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 30 | 22–7–1 | 75% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 7 | 3–4 | 43% |
His own 37 games on file, 1942–1945, 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
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doc Newton 1942–1944 | 3–0 | NC State, South Carolina | 3 | |
| D.C. Walker 1942–1945 | 2–1 | Wake Forest | 3 | |
| William Alexander 1942–1944 | 2–1 | Georgia Tech | 3 |
Eddie Cameron’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| North Carolinaseries | 5 | 4–0–1 |
| Georgia Techseries | 4 | 3–1 |
| NC Stateseries | 3 | 3–0 |
| Wake Forestseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Navyseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Richmondseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| South Carolinaseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| North Carolina Pre-Flightseries | 2 | 1–1 |
Also a player: Eddie Cameron’s playing career.
Coaching tree
Assistants who became head coaches
- Dutch StanleyFlorida
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Stanley | Duke, 1942–45: ends coach | Florida |
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.