Joseph Duff, head coach at Pittsburgh
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Joseph Duff

Joseph Duff went 14–⁠3–⁠1 as a head coach, 1913–⁠1914, at Pittsburgh.

Record
14–⁠3–⁠1 career
Seasons
2
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1914 8–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1607 in 1914
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1913Pittsburgh6–⁠2–⁠1
1914Pittsburgh8–⁠1

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals33–⁠0
Decided by 8 points or fewer75–⁠1–⁠1
At home1310–⁠3
On the road54–⁠0–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite1311–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog53–⁠1–⁠1

His own 18 games on file, 1913–⁠1914, 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
Cornellseries22–⁠0
Penn Stateseries22–⁠0
Carlisleseries22–⁠0
Navyseries21–⁠0–⁠1
Washington & Jeffersonseries20–⁠2
Georgetownseries11–⁠0
West Virginiaseries11–⁠0
Lafayetteseries11–⁠0

Also a player: Joseph Duff’s playing career.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1912PrincetonAssistant coach
1913–⁠14PittsburghHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Joseph Duff

Assistants who became head coaches

  • Andrew KerrStanford, Washington & Jefferson, Colgate, Lebanon Valley
Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Logan CunninghamPrinceton1912Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Andrew KerrPittsburgh, 1913–⁠14: assistant coachStanford, Washington & Jefferson, Colgate, Lebanon Valley

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.