John Stiegman

John Stiegman went 34–⁠48 as a head coach, 1956–⁠1964, at Rutgers and Pennsylvania.

Record
34–⁠48 career
Seasons
9
Schools
2
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1958 8–⁠1, No. 20

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1526 in 1958
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1956Rutgers3–⁠7
1957Rutgers5–⁠4
1958Rutgers8–⁠120
1959Rutgers6–⁠3
1960Pennsylvania3–⁠6
1961Pennsylvania2–⁠7
1962Pennsylvania3–⁠6
1963Pennsylvania3–⁠6
1964Pennsylvania1–⁠8

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 ranked teams10–⁠1
Against top-10 teams10–⁠1
Against rivals194–⁠15
Conference games399–⁠30
Decided by 8 points or fewer2614–⁠12
At home5024–⁠26
On the road3210–⁠22
As our Elo’s favorite4227–⁠15
As our Elo’s underdog407–⁠33

His own 82 games on file, 1956–⁠1964, 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
Aldo Donelli 1957–⁠19642–⁠6Columbia8
Richard Colman 1957–⁠19642–⁠6Princeton8
John McLaughry 1960–⁠19643–⁠2Brown5
John Yovicsin 1960–⁠19641–⁠4Harvard5
Bob Blackman 1960–⁠19640–⁠5Dartmouth5
John Bateman 1961–⁠19641–⁠3Rutgers4
Tom Harp 1961–⁠19640–⁠4Cornell4
Jordan Olivar 1960–⁠19621–⁠2Yale3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Princetonseries92–⁠7
Columbiaseries92–⁠7
Lafayetteseries88–⁠0
Brownseries53–⁠2
Lehighseries53–⁠2
Yaleseries51–⁠4
Harvardseries51–⁠4
Cornellseries51–⁠4

Coaching tree

John Stiegman

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Frank BurnsRutgers, 1956: backfield coachRutgers, Johns Hopkins

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.