Jack Owsley
Jack Owsley went 15–2–1 as a head coach, 1905–1925, at Yale and Navy. Share
- Record
- 15–2–1 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 2
- AP poll
- Began in 1936, after this career
- Best season
- 1905 10–0
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | Yale | 10–0 | ||||
| 1906–24: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1925 | Navy | 5–2–1 | ||||
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.
Players he coached
Roswell TrippConsensus All‑American, 1905- Howard RoomeConsensus All‑American, 1905
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against rivals | 3 | 2–1 | 67% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 4 | 2–1–1 | 63% |
| At home | 13 | 13–0 | 100% |
| On the road | 4 | 2–1–1 | 63% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 14 | 14–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 4 | 1–2–1 | 38% |
His own 18 games on file, 1905–1925, 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
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Princetonseries | 2 | 1–0–1 |
| Armyseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Springfieldseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Holy Crossseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Harvardseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Columbiaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Syracuseseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Penn Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | Yale | Head coach | |
| 1923–24 | Yale | Backfield coach | |
| 1925 | Navy | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Tad JonesYale
Assistants who became head coaches
- Foster SanfordVirginia, Cornell, Columbia, Rutgers
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foster Sanford | Yale, 1905: assistant coach | Virginia, Cornell, Columbia, Rutgers |
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.