Oliver Cutts
Oliver Cutts went 26–23–3 as a head coach, 1903–1924, at Purdue, Washington and Bates. Share
Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1905 at Washington; 1922–24 at Bates. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 26–23–3 career
- Seasons
- 6
- Schools
- 3
- AP poll
- Began in 1936, after this career
- Best season
- 1904 9–3
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | Purdue | 4–2 | 9th | |||
| 1904 | Purdue | 9–3 | T–5th | |||
| 1905 | Washington * | 5–2–2 | ||||
| 1906–21: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1922 | Bates * | 2–6–1 | ||||
| 1923 | Bates * | 3–5 | ||||
| 1924 | Bates * | 3–5 | ||||
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 | 6 | 2–4 | 33% |
| Conference games | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 3 | 2–1 | 67% |
| At home | 11 | 9–2 | 82% |
| On the road | 7 | 4–3 | 57% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 14 | 13–1 | 93% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 4 | 0–4 | 0% |
His own 18 games on file, 1903–1904, 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
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Wabashseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Beloitseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Chicagoseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Illinoisseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Indianaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Notre Dameseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Missouriseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Oberlinseries | 1 | 1–0 |
Also a player: Oliver Cutts’s playing career.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | Bates | Assistant coach | |
| 1903–04 | Purdue | Head coach | |
| 1905 | Washington | Head coach | |
| 1906–07 | Harvard | Assistant coach | |
| 1922–24 | Bates | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Bill ReidHarvard
- Joshua CraneHarvard
Worked under (2)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Reid | Harvard | 1906 | Assistant coach | |
| Joshua Crane | Harvard | 1907 | Assistant 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.