Ernest Graves, head coach at Army
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Ernest Graves

Ernest Graves went 7–⁠8–⁠1 as a head coach, 1906–⁠1912, at Army.

Record
7–⁠8–⁠1 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1912 5–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1548 in 1912
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1906Army 1st season, final 8 games2–⁠5–⁠1
1907–⁠11: not a college head coach
1912Army5–⁠3

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 rivals20–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer70–⁠6–⁠1
At home147–⁠6–⁠1
At neutral sites20–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite107–⁠2–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog60–⁠6

His own 16 games on file, 1906–⁠1912, 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
Syracuseseries21–⁠1
Colgateseries21–⁠0–⁠1
Yaleseries20–⁠2
Navyseries20–⁠2
Tuftsseries11–⁠0
Rutgersseries11–⁠0
Williamsseries11–⁠0
Trinity (CT)series11–⁠0

Other roles

  • Team captain, Army 1904

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1906ArmyHead coach
1908HarvardLine coach
1912ArmyHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Ernest Graves
Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Percy HaughtonHarvard1908Line coach

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.