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Mark Catlin
Mark Catlin went 63–40–7 as a head coach, 1906–1927, at Iowa and Lawrence. Share
13 seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1909–16, 1918, 1924–27 at Lawrence. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 63–40–7 career
- Seasons
- 16
- Schools
- 2
- AP poll
- Began in 1936, after this career
- Best season
- 1907 3–2
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | Iowa | 2–3 | 6th | |||
| 1907 | Iowa | 3–2 | 4th / T–1st | |||
| 1908 | Iowa | 2–5 | 6th / 7th | |||
| 1909 | Lawrence * | 4–3 | ||||
| 1910 | Lawrence * | 3–3–1 | ||||
| 1911 | Lawrence * | 8–1 | ||||
| 1912 | Lawrence * | 5–1–1 | ||||
| 1913 | Lawrence * | 5–1–1 | ||||
| 1914 | Lawrence * | 5–1 | ||||
| 1915 | Lawrence * | 2–5 | ||||
| 1916 | Lawrence * | 4–2–1 | ||||
| 1917: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1918 | Lawrence * | 6–1 | ||||
| 1919–23: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1924 | Lawrence * | 4–2–1 | T–1st | |||
| 1925 | Lawrence * | 4–3 | 5th | |||
| 1926 | Lawrence * | 4–2–2 | T–4th | |||
| 1927 | Lawrence * | 2–5 | 7th | |||
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. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against rivals | 7 | 1–6 | 14% |
| Conference games | 4 | 1–3 | 25% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 8 | 1–7 | 13% |
| At home | 10 | 5–5 | 50% |
| On the road | 7 | 2–5 | 29% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 10 | 6–4 | 60% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 7 | 1–6 | 14% |
His own 17 games on file, 1906–1908, 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
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W.J. Monilaw 1906–1908 | 2–1 | Missouri | 3 |
Mark Catlin’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Missouriseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| Coeseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Illinoisseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Drakeseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Iowa Stateseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Wisconsinseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Morningsideseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Nebraskaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
Also a player: Mark Catlin Sr.’s playing career.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906–08 | Iowa | Head coach | |
| 1909–18 | Lawrence | Head coach | |
| 1924–27 | Lawrence | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Assistants who became head coaches
- John ChalmersIowa, Franklin & Marshall, Loras, Dubuque
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Chalmers | Iowa, 1906: assistant coach | Iowa, Franklin & Marshall, Loras, Dubuque |
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.