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Harry Gamage, head coach at Kentucky
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Harry Gamage

Harry Gamage went 114–⁠92–⁠12 as a head coach, 1927–⁠1955, at Kentucky and South Dakota.

18 seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1934–⁠41, 1946–⁠55 at South Dakota. They’re marked in the table.

Record
114–⁠92–⁠12 career
Seasons
25
Schools
2
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1929 6–⁠1–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1593 in 1929
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1927Kentucky3–⁠6–⁠121st
1928Kentucky4–⁠3–⁠1T–9th
1929Kentucky6–⁠1–⁠16th
1930Kentucky5–⁠3T–10th
1931Kentucky5–⁠2–⁠26th
1932Kentucky4–⁠512th
1933Kentucky5–⁠5T–9th
1934South Dakota *2–⁠75th
1935South Dakota *5–⁠3–⁠14th
1936South Dakota *4–⁠3–⁠22nd
1937South Dakota *6–⁠42nd
1938South Dakota *7–⁠11st
1939South Dakota *4–⁠5T–1st
1940South Dakota *4–⁠5–⁠13rd
1941South Dakota *6–⁠22nd
1942–⁠45: not a college head coach
1946South Dakota *2–⁠46th
1947South Dakota *7–⁠21st
1948South Dakota *7–⁠32nd
1949South Dakota *2–⁠5–⁠25th
1950South Dakota *4–⁠55th
1951South Dakota *7–⁠11st
1952South Dakota *4–⁠3–⁠1T–3rd
1953South Dakota *2–⁠6T–4th
1954South Dakota *5–⁠4T–3rd
1955South Dakota *4–⁠4T–4th

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals154–⁠8–⁠3
Conference games4520–⁠21–⁠4
Decided by 8 points or fewer259–⁠11–⁠5
At home3725–⁠9–⁠3
On the road257–⁠16–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite3428–⁠5–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog284–⁠20–⁠4

His own 62 games on file, 1927–⁠1933, 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
W.C. Raftery 1927–⁠19337–⁠0VMI7
Bob Neyland 1927–⁠19330–⁠4–⁠3Tennessee7
Wallace Wade 1927–⁠19330–⁠7Alabama, Duke7
Jimmy DeHart 1930–⁠19322–⁠1Duke, Washington and Lee3
Frank Thomas 1931–⁠19330–⁠3Alabama3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
VMIseries77–⁠0
Washington and Leeseries75–⁠2
Alabamaseries70–⁠7
Tennesseeseries70–⁠4–⁠3
Maryville (TN)series54–⁠0–⁠1
Dukeseries40–⁠4
Centreseries33–⁠0
Sewaneeseries33–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1922Fairmont HS (WV) high schoolHead coach
1923Parkersburg HS (WV) high schoolHead coach
1924–⁠26IllinoisFreshman coach
1927–⁠33KentuckyHead coach
1934–⁠41South DakotaHead coach
1946–⁠55South DakotaHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Harry Gamage

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Robert ZuppkeIllinois1924–⁠26Freshman coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bernie ShivelyKentucky, 1927–⁠33: line coachKentucky

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.