Ira Johnson

Ira Johnson went 0–⁠4 as a head coach in the games on file: 1905 at VMI and 1906 at VMI. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records. Wikipedia’s season articles record two seasons differently (1905, 2–⁠5–⁠1 and 1906, 4–⁠4); by them his record is 6–⁠9–⁠1.

Record
0–⁠4 games on file
Seasons
2
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1905 0–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1395 in 1906
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1905VMI0–⁠3 (Wikipedia: 2–⁠5–⁠1)
1906VMI0–⁠1 (Wikipedia: 4–⁠4)

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

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer10–⁠1
At home10–⁠1
On the road30–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog40–⁠4

His own four games on file, 1905–⁠1906, 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
North Carolinaseries10–⁠1
Virginia Techseries10–⁠1
Davidsonseries10–⁠1
Navyseries10–⁠1

Coaching tree

Ira Johnson

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
G.E. PyleVMI, 1906: assistant coachFlorida, Transylvania

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.