Ewing Freeland, head coach at TCU
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Ewing Freeland

Ewing Freeland went 77–⁠49–⁠16 as a head coach, 1912–⁠1938, at Daniel Baker, TCU, Austin, Millsaps, SMU and Texas Tech.

15 seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1912–⁠14 at Daniel Baker; 1919–⁠20, 1936–⁠38 at Austin; 1921 at Millsaps; 1922–⁠23 at SMU; 1925–⁠28 at Texas Tech. They’re marked in the table.

Record
77–⁠49–⁠16 career
Seasons
16
Schools
6
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1915 4–⁠5

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national title
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1912Daniel Baker *4–⁠1–⁠2
1913Daniel Baker *1–⁠3–⁠3
1914Daniel Baker *7–⁠2
1915TCU4–⁠5
1916–⁠18: not a college head coach
1919Austin *4–⁠3–⁠1
1920Austin *6–⁠31st
1921Millsaps *1–⁠5–⁠1T–26th
1922SMU *6–⁠3–⁠1T–3rd
1923SMU *9–⁠01st
1924: not a college head coach
1925Texas Tech *6–⁠1–⁠2
1926Texas Tech *6–⁠1–⁠3
1927Texas Tech *5–⁠4
1928Texas Tech *4–⁠4–⁠1
1929–⁠35: not a college head coach
1936Austin *4–⁠4–⁠24th
1937Austin *8–⁠22nd
1938Austin *2–⁠8

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 rivals41–⁠3
Conference games11–⁠0
Decided by 8 points or fewer10–⁠1
At home42–⁠2
On the road52–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite43–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog51–⁠4

His own nine games on file, 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.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
SMUseries11–⁠0
Southwestern Useries11–⁠0
Trinity (Texas)series11–⁠0
Austinseries11–⁠0
Oklahoma Stateseries10–⁠1
Baylorseries10–⁠1
Riceseries10–⁠1
Texas A&Mseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1912–⁠14Daniel BakerHead coach
1915TCUHead coach
1919–⁠20AustinHead coach
1921MillsapsHead coach
1922–⁠23SMUHead coach
1925–⁠28Texas TechHead coach
1936–⁠38AustinHead coach

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