Pooley Hubert

Pooley Hubert went 17–⁠10–⁠3 as a head coach in the games on file: 1939 at VMI, 1940 at VMI and 1946 at VMI. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records.

Record
17–⁠10–⁠3 games on file
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1940 7–⁠2–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1525 in 1940
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1939VMI6–⁠3–⁠1
1940VMI7–⁠2–⁠1
1941–⁠45: not a college head coach
1946VMI4–⁠5–⁠1

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams20–⁠2
Against rivals93–⁠3–⁠3
Conference games189–⁠6–⁠3
Decided by 8 points or fewer106–⁠1–⁠3
At home1310–⁠2–⁠1
On the road134–⁠7–⁠2
At neutral sites43–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite1310–⁠1–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog177–⁠9–⁠1

His own 30 games on file, 1939–⁠1946, 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
Davidsonseries33–⁠0
Virginiaseries32–⁠1
Virginia Techseries32–⁠1
Richmondseries30–⁠1–⁠2
Marylandseries22–⁠0
Roanokeseries22–⁠0
Dukeseries20–⁠2
William & Maryseries20–⁠1–⁠1

Also a player: Pooley Hubert’s playing career.

Coaching tree

Pooley Hubert

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Russ CohenVMI, 1939–⁠40, 1946: assistant coachLSU, Cincinnati

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.