Hank Hardwick, head coach at Navy
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Hank Hardwick

Hank Hardwick went 8–⁠7–⁠3 as a head coach, 1937–⁠1938, at Navy.

Record
8–⁠7–⁠3 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1938 4–⁠3–⁠2

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1529 in 1938
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1937Navy4–⁠4–⁠1
1938Navy4–⁠3–⁠2

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 ranked teams10–⁠1
Against top-10 teams10–⁠1
Against rivals40–⁠4
Decided by 8 points or fewer102–⁠5–⁠3
At home87–⁠1
On the road81–⁠4–⁠3
At neutral sites20–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite107–⁠2–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog81–⁠5–⁠2

His own 18 games on file, 1937–⁠1938, 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
Columbiaseries22–⁠0
Virginiaseries22–⁠0
William & Maryseries22–⁠0
Notre Dameseries20–⁠2
Princetonseries20–⁠1–⁠1
Pennsylvaniaseries20–⁠1–⁠1
Armyseries20–⁠2
The Citadelseries11–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1928–⁠29NavyEnds coach
1931NavyPlebe ends
1933NavyPlebe assistant
1934NavyPlebe coach
1937–⁠38NavyHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Hank Hardwick

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (3)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
William IngramNavy1928–⁠29Ends coach
Rip MillerNavy1931–⁠331931: plebe ends; 1933: plebe assistant
Thomas HamiltonNavy1934Plebe coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Rip MillerNavy, 1937–⁠38: line coachNavy

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.