Henry Schulte, head coach at Missouri and Nebraska
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Henry Schulte

Henry Schulte went 41–⁠29–⁠6 as a head coach, 1906–⁠1920, at Michigan State Normal, Cape Girardeau Normal, Missouri and Nebraska.

Six seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1906–⁠08 at Michigan State Normal; 1909–⁠11 at Cape Girardeau Normal. They’re marked in the table.

Record
41–⁠29–⁠6 career
Seasons
12
Schools
4
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1916 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 1567 in 1916
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1906Michigan State Normal *5–⁠0–⁠1
1907Michigan State Normal *3–⁠2
1908Michigan State Normal *1–⁠4
1909Cape Girardeau Normal *3–⁠0
1910Cape Girardeau Normal *3–⁠1
1911Cape Girardeau Normal *2–⁠2
1912–⁠13: not a college head coach
1914Missouri5–⁠32nd
1915Missouri2–⁠5–⁠15th
1916Missouri6–⁠1–⁠12nd
1917Missouri3–⁠55th
1918: not a college head coach
1919Nebraska3–⁠3–⁠2
1920Nebraska5–⁠3–⁠1

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 rivals246–⁠13–⁠5
Conference games2110–⁠9–⁠2
Decided by 8 points or fewer217–⁠9–⁠5
At home3017–⁠11–⁠2
On the road197–⁠9–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite2615–⁠10–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog239–⁠10–⁠4

His own 49 games on file, 1914–⁠1920, 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
Bennie Owen 1914–⁠19191–⁠3–⁠1Oklahoma5
Charles Mayser 1915–⁠19190–⁠3–⁠1Iowa State4
Herman Olcott 1915–⁠19171–⁠2Kansas3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Kansasseries63–⁠2–⁠1
Oklahomaseries51–⁠3–⁠1
Iowa Stateseries50–⁠4–⁠1
Drakeseries44–⁠0
Washington St. Louisseries43–⁠1
Kansas Stateseries41–⁠2–⁠1
William Jewellseries22–⁠0
Notre Dameseries20–⁠2

Career

YearsTeamJob
1906–⁠08Michigan State NormalHead coach
1909–⁠11Cape Girardeau NormalHead coach
1912MichiganAssistant coach
1913MissouriAssistant coach
1914–⁠18MissouriHead coach
1919–⁠20NebraskaHead coach
1922–⁠27NebraskaAssistant coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Henry Schulte

Assistants who became head coaches

  • Paul SchisslerOregon State, Doane, St. Viator, Lombard, Chicago Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, March Field
Worked under (4)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Fielding YostMichigan1912Assistant coach
Chester BrewerMissouri1913Assistant coach
Fred DawsonNebraska1922–⁠24Assistant coach
Ernest BeargNebraska1925–⁠27Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Paul SchisslerNebraska, 1919–⁠20: assistant coachOregon State, Doane, St. Viator, Lombard, Chicago Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, March Field

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.