Kip Taylor

Kip Taylor went 20–⁠36 as a head coach, 1949–⁠1954, at Oregon State.

Record
20–⁠36 career
Seasons
6
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1949 7–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1581 in 1949
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1949Oregon State7–⁠35th
1950Oregon State3–⁠68th
1951Oregon State4–⁠66th
1952Oregon State2–⁠79th
1953Oregon State3–⁠66th
1954Oregon State1–⁠8T–8th

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 ranked teams171–⁠16
Against top-10 teams101–⁠9
Against rivals65–⁠1
Conference games4515–⁠30
Decided by 8 points or fewer127–⁠5
At home249–⁠15
On the road298–⁠21
At neutral sites33–⁠0
As our Elo’s favorite1811–⁠7
As our Elo’s underdog389–⁠29

His own 56 games on file, 1949–⁠1954, 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
Red Sanders 1949–⁠19540–⁠6UCLA6
Biggie Munn 1949–⁠19531–⁠4Michigan State5
Pappy Waldorf 1949–⁠19540–⁠5California5
Len Casanova 1951–⁠19543–⁠1Oregon4
Howard Odell 1949–⁠19522–⁠2Washington4
Jess Hill 1951–⁠19540–⁠4USC4
Raymond Curfman 1951–⁠19532–⁠1Idaho3
Alton Kircher 1952–⁠19541–⁠2Washington State3
Chuck Taylor 1951–⁠19530–⁠3Stanford3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Idahoseries65–⁠1
Oregonseries65–⁠1
Washingtonseries62–⁠4
Washington Stateseries62–⁠4
UCLAseries60–⁠6
Michigan Stateseries51–⁠4
Stanfordseries50–⁠5
Californiaseries50–⁠5

Career

YearsTeamJob
1935–⁠39George Rogers Clark HS (IN) high schoolHead coach
1940–⁠45Pioneer HS (MI) high schoolHead coach
1946SyracuseEnds coach
1947–⁠48Michigan StateEnds coach
1949–⁠54Oregon StateHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Kip Taylor

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Biggie MunnSyracuse1946Ends coach
Biggie MunnMichigan State1947–⁠48Ends coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bump ElliottOregon State, 1949–⁠51: assistant coachMichigan
Pete ElliottOregon State, 1949–⁠50: ends coachNebraska, California, Illinois, Miami

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.