Frederick Speik, head coach at Purdue
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Frederick Speik

Frederick Speik went 6–⁠8 as a head coach, 1908–⁠1909, at Purdue.

Record
6–⁠8 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1908 4–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1425 in 1908
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1908Purdue4–⁠3T–4th
1909Purdue2–⁠58th

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 rivals60–⁠6
Conference games81–⁠7
Decided by 8 points or fewer42–⁠2
At home105–⁠5
On the road41–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite85–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog61–⁠5

His own 14 games on file, 1908–⁠1909, 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
DePauwseries22–⁠0
Northwesternseries21–⁠1
Chicagoseries20–⁠2
Indianaseries20–⁠2
Illinoisseries20–⁠2
Rose Hulmanseries11–⁠0
Earlhamseries11–⁠0
Monmouthseries11–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1905–⁠07ChicagoAssistant coach
1908–⁠09PurdueHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Frederick Speik
Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Amos Alonzo StaggChicago1905–⁠07Assistant 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.