Ray George, head coach at Texas A&M
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Ray George

Ray George went 12–⁠14–⁠4 as a head coach, 1951–⁠1953, at Texas A&M.

Record
12–⁠14–⁠4 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1951 5–⁠3–⁠2

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1558 in 1951
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1951Texas A&M5–⁠3–⁠2T–5th
1952Texas A&M3–⁠6–⁠16th
1953Texas A&M4–⁠5–⁠1T–6th

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 ranked teams103–⁠6–⁠1
Against top-10 teams61–⁠4–⁠1
Against rivals145–⁠7–⁠2
Conference games183–⁠12–⁠3
Decided by 8 points or fewer167–⁠5–⁠4
At home156–⁠5–⁠4
On the road156–⁠9
As our Elo’s favorite135–⁠6–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog177–⁠8–⁠2

His own 30 games on file, 1951–⁠1953, 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
Edwin Price 1951–⁠19531–⁠2Texas3
George Sauer 1951–⁠19530–⁠2–⁠1Baylor3
Jess Neely 1951–⁠19530–⁠3Rice3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Arkansasseries31–⁠2
Texasseries31–⁠2
TCUseries31–⁠1–⁠1
Baylorseries30–⁠2–⁠1
Riceseries30–⁠3
SMUseries30–⁠2–⁠1
Texas Techseries22–⁠0
Kentuckyseries21–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1941Porterville HS (CA) high schoolHead coach
1946–⁠50USCLine coach
1951–⁠53Texas A&MHead coach
1958–⁠64USCAssistant coach
1972–⁠74USCAssistant coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Ray George

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (3)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Jeff CravathUSC1946–⁠50Line coach
Don ClarkUSC1958–⁠59Assistant coach
John McKayUSC1960–⁠74Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Hank FoldbergTexas A&M, 1951: assistant coachWichita State, Texas A&M, Wichita
Mike MichalskeTexas A&M, 1953: line coachIowa State

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.