Frank Navarro

Frank Navarro went 34–⁠53–⁠5 as a head coach in the games on file: 1968 at Columbia, 1969 at Columbia, 1970 at Columbia, 1971 at Columbia, 1972 at Columbia, 1973 at Columbia, 1978 at Princeton, 1979 at Princeton, 1980 at Princeton and 1981 at Princeton. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records. Share

Record: 34–⁠53–⁠5 games on file
Seasons: 10
Schools: 2
Final AP top 10: 0 seasons
Best season: 1971 6–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1462 in 1980

Season	School	Record
1968	Columbia	2–⁠7
1969	Columbia	1–⁠8
1970	Columbia	3–⁠6
1971	Columbia	6–⁠3
1972	Columbia	3–⁠5–⁠1
1973	Columbia	1–⁠7–⁠1
1974–⁠77: not a college head coach
1978	Princeton	2–⁠5–⁠2
1979	Princeton	5–⁠4
1980	Princeton	6–⁠4
1981	Princeton	5–⁠4–⁠1

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

Players he coached

Marty DomresNo. 9 pick, 1969

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 game	Games	Record	Won
Against ranked teams	1	0–⁠1	0%
Against rivals	22	10–⁠10–⁠2	50%
Conference games	70	27–⁠39–⁠4	41%
Decided by 8 points or fewer	36	16–⁠15–⁠5	51%
At home	49	24–⁠23–⁠2	51%
On the road	43	10–⁠30–⁠3	27%
As our Elo’s favorite	36	22–⁠12–⁠2	64%
As our Elo’s underdog	56	12–⁠41–⁠3	24%

His own 92 games on file, 1968–⁠1981, 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	Games
Carmen Cozza 1968–⁠1981	2–⁠8	Yale	10
Bob Blackman 1968–⁠1981	2–⁠4–⁠1	Dartmouth, Cornell	7
Joseph Restic 1971–⁠1981	2–⁠3–⁠2	Harvard	7
Jack Musick 1968–⁠1973	2–⁠4	Cornell	6
Len Jardine 1968–⁠1972	4–⁠1	Brown	5
John Bateman 1968–⁠1972	2–⁠3	Rutgers	5
John Anderson 1973–⁠1981	1–⁠4	Brown	5
Joseph Yukica 1978–⁠1981	2–⁠2	Dartmouth	4
Jake McCandless 1969–⁠1972	1–⁠2–⁠1	Princeton	4
Frank Burns 1973–⁠1980	0–⁠4	Rutgers	4

Frank Navarro’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
Pennsylvania series	10	5–⁠5
Brown series	10	5–⁠5
Cornell series	10	4–⁠5–⁠1
Harvard series	10	3–⁠5–⁠2
Dartmouth series	10	3–⁠7
Yale series	10	2–⁠8
Rutgers series	9	2–⁠7
Princeton series	6	2–⁠3–⁠1

Coaching tree

Frank Navarro

Assistants who became head coaches

Hank SmallLehigh
Joe PascaleIdaho State, San Diego Chargers

Coached under him, later head coaches (2)

Coach	With him	Head coach at
Hank Small		Princeton, 1978–⁠81: offensive backfield	Lehigh
Joe Pascale		Princeton, 1978–⁠79: defensive coordinator	Idaho State, San Diego Chargers

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.