Maury Kent, head coach at Iowa State
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Maury Kent

Maury Kent went 24–⁠7–⁠2 as a head coach, 1909–⁠1921, at Carleton and Iowa State.

Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1909–⁠12 at Carleton. They’re marked in the table.

Record
24–⁠7–⁠2 career
Seasons
5
Schools
2
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1921 4–⁠4

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national title
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1909Carleton *4–⁠1–⁠1
1910Carleton *6–⁠0
1911Carleton *6–⁠1
1912Carleton *4–⁠1–⁠1
1913–⁠20: not a college head coach
1921Iowa State4–⁠46th

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 gameGamesRecord
Against rivals31–⁠2
Conference games73–⁠4
Decided by 8 points or fewer52–⁠3
At home53–⁠2
On the road31–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite43–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog41–⁠3

His own eight games on file, 1921, 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
Grinnellseries11–⁠0
Coeseries11–⁠0
Drakeseries11–⁠0
Kansas Stateseries11–⁠0
Missouriseries10–⁠1
Washington St. Louisseries10–⁠1
Nebraskaseries10–⁠1
Kansasseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1909–⁠12CarletonHead coach
1921Iowa StateHead coach
1944IowaAssistant coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Maury Kent
Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Slip MadiganIowa1944Assistant coach

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.