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Frank Hinkey

Frank Hinkey went 11–⁠7 as a head coach in the games on file: 1914 at Yale and 1915 at Yale. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records.

Record
11–⁠7 games on file
Seasons
2
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1914 7–⁠2

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1618 in 1914
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1914Yale7–⁠2
1915Yale4–⁠5

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

Players he coached

Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals42–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer64–⁠2
At home1610–⁠6
On the road21–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite149–⁠5
As our Elo’s underdog42–⁠2

His own 18 games on file, 1914–⁠1915, 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
Princetonseries22–⁠0
Maineseries22–⁠0
Lehighseries22–⁠0
Brownseries21–⁠1
Virginiaseries21–⁠1
Colgateseries21–⁠1
Harvardseries20–⁠2
Washington & Jeffersonseries20–⁠2

Also a player: Frank Hinkey’s playing career.

Coaching tree

Frank Hinkey

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Paul WithingtonYale, 1914: line coachWisconsin, Columbia

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.