Mont McIntire, head coach at West Virginia
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Mont McIntire

Mont McIntire went 51–⁠22–⁠6 as a head coach, 1912–⁠1923, at West Virginia Wesleyan, West Virginia and Phillips.

Five seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1912–⁠13 at West Virginia Wesleyan (on file under another coach); 1921–⁠23 at Phillips. They’re marked in the table.

Record
51–⁠22–⁠6 career
Seasons
9
Schools
3
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1919 8–⁠2

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1632 in 1919
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1912West Virginia Wesleyan *8–⁠0
1913West Virginia Wesleyan *5–⁠3
1914–⁠15: not a college head coach
1916West Virginia5–⁠2–⁠2
1917West Virginia6–⁠3–⁠1
1918: not a college head coach
1919West Virginia8–⁠2
1920West Virginia5–⁠4–⁠1
1921Phillips *3–⁠4–⁠2
1922Phillips *7–⁠1T–1st
1923Phillips *4–⁠3

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.

Players he coached

Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals63–⁠3
Decided by 8 points or fewer155–⁠6–⁠4
At home2220–⁠1–⁠1
On the road174–⁠10–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite2722–⁠4–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog122–⁠7–⁠3

His own 39 games on file, 1916–⁠1920, 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
George Sanford 1916–⁠19202–⁠0–⁠2Rutgers4
Pop Warner 1917–⁠19200–⁠3Pittsburgh3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Rutgersseries42–⁠0–⁠2
West Virginia Wesleyanseries32–⁠1
Washington & Jeffersonseries32–⁠1
Pittsburghseries30–⁠3
Virginia Techseries22–⁠0
Bethany (WV)series22–⁠0
Gettysburgseries22–⁠0
Princetonseries21–⁠1

Other roles

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1909West VirginiaAssistant coach
1912–⁠13West Virginia WesleyanHead coach
1915West VirginiaAssistant coach
1916–⁠20West VirginiaHead coach
1921–⁠23PhillipsHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Mont McIntire

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (2)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
C.A. LuederWest Virginia1909Assistant coach
Sol MetzgerWest Virginia1915Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Myron FullerWest Virginia, 1919: line coachNorth Carolina, Tulane, Stevens, Colby
Rat RogersWest Virginia, 1920: assistant coachWest Virginia

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.