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Frank Kimbrough, head coach at Hardin Simmons, Baylor, North Carolina Pre-Flight and West Texas
Photo: Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Frank Kimbrough

Frank Kimbrough went 118–⁠87–⁠9 as a head coach, 1935–⁠1957, at Hardin-Simmons, Baylor, North Carolina Pre-Flight and West Texas.

Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1935–⁠38 at Hardin-Simmons (on file under another coach). They’re marked in the table.

Record
118–⁠87–⁠9 career
Seasons
22
Schools
4
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1940 9–⁠0, No. 17

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1586 in 1950
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1935Hardin-Simmons *6–⁠3–⁠1NASun T
1936Hardin-Simmons *9–⁠2Sun W
1937Hardin-Simmons *8–⁠0–⁠1
1938Hardin-Simmons *8–⁠2
1939Hardin Simmons7–⁠1–⁠1
1940Hardin Simmons9–⁠017
1941Baylor3–⁠6–⁠16th
1942Baylor6–⁠4–⁠14th
1943North Carolina Pre-Flight2–⁠4–⁠1
1944: not a college head coach
1945Baylor5–⁠5–⁠16th
1946Baylor1–⁠87th
1947West Texas7–⁠43rd
1948West Texas6–⁠56th
1949West Texas5–⁠45th
1950West Texas10–⁠11stSun Bowl W
1951West Texas2–⁠77th
1952West Texas3–⁠67th
1953West Texas1–⁠8–⁠17th
1954West Texas1–⁠87th
1955West Texas4–⁠4–⁠16th
1956West Texas8–⁠23rdTangerine Bowl W
1957West Texas7–⁠32nd

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.

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams111–⁠9–⁠1
Against top-10 teams51–⁠3–⁠1
Against rivals163–⁠12–⁠1
Conference games8532–⁠50–⁠3
Bowls and playoffs22–⁠0
Decided by 8 points or fewer5720–⁠30–⁠7
At home7346–⁠23–⁠4
On the road9438–⁠53–⁠3
At neutral sites73–⁠4
As our Elo’s favorite9971–⁠24–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog7516–⁠56–⁠3

His own 174 games on file, 1939–⁠1957, 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

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Warren Woodson 1941–⁠19563–⁠7–⁠1Hardin Simmons, Arizona11
Dell Morgan 1942–⁠19502–⁠4–⁠1Texas Tech7
DeWitt Weaver 1951–⁠19572–⁠5Texas Tech7
Mike Brumbelow 1950–⁠19561–⁠6UTEP7
Dutch Meyer 1941–⁠19461–⁠3TCU4
Homer Norton 1941–⁠19461–⁠3Texas A&M4
Jess Neely 1941–⁠19461–⁠3Rice4
Dana Bible 1941–⁠19460–⁠3–⁠1Texas4
Berl Huffman 1947–⁠19493–⁠0New Mexico3
Tony Cavallo 1955–⁠19573–⁠0New Mexico State3

Frank Kimbrough’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Texas Techseries144–⁠9–⁠1
Hardin Simmonsseries135–⁠8
UTEPseries134–⁠9
New Mexico Stateseries98–⁠1
McMurryseries96–⁠2–⁠1
Arizona Stateseries83–⁠5
Midwestern Texas Stateseries75–⁠2
Arizonaseries72–⁠4–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1935–⁠40Hardin-SimmonsHead coach
1941–⁠42BaylorHead coach
1943North Carolina Pre-Flight service teamHead coach
1945–⁠46BaylorHead coach
1947–⁠57West Texas StateHead coach

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