Paul Dashiell, head coach at Navy
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Paul Dashiell

Paul Dashiell went 25–⁠5–⁠4 as a head coach, 1904–⁠1906, at Navy.

Record
25–⁠5–⁠4 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1905 10–⁠1–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1634 in 1905
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1904Navy7–⁠2–⁠1
1905Navy10–⁠1–⁠1
1906Navy8–⁠2–⁠2

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 rivals53–⁠1–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer147–⁠3–⁠4
At home3023–⁠4–⁠3
On the road11–⁠0
At neutral sites31–⁠1–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite2719–⁠4–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog76–⁠1

His own 34 games on file, 1904–⁠1906, 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
Tom Fennell 1904–⁠19062–⁠1Penn State3
George Brooke 1904–⁠19061–⁠2Swarthmore3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Virginia Techseries33–⁠0
St. John’s (Maryland)series33–⁠0
Penn Stateseries32–⁠1
Armyseries31–⁠1–⁠1
Dickinsonseries31–⁠0–⁠2
Swarthmoreseries31–⁠2
Marylandseries22–⁠0
North Carolinaseries22–⁠0

Career

YearsTeamJob
1892–⁠1903NavyAssistant coach
1904–⁠06NavyHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Paul Dashiell

Assistants who became head coaches

  • H.B. OlcottNorth Carolina, NYU, Kansas, Great Lakes Navy
Worked under (9)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Ben CrosbyNavy1892Assistant coach
John A. HartwellNavy1893Assistant coach
William WurtenburgNavy1894Assistant coach
Matthew McClungNavy1895Assistant coach
Johnny PoeNavy1896Assistant coach
Bill ArmstrongNavy1897–⁠99Assistant coach
Garrett CochranNavy1900Assistant coach
Art HillebrandNavy1901–⁠02Assistant coach
Burr ChamberlainNavy1903Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
H.B. OlcottNavy, 1904–⁠06: assistant coachNorth Carolina, NYU, Kansas, Great Lakes Navy

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.