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Raymond Wolf, head coach at North Carolina, Georgia Pre-Flight, Florida and Tulane
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Raymond Wolf

Raymond Wolf went 64–⁠55–⁠7 as a head coach, 1936–⁠1953, at North Carolina, Georgia Pre-Flight, Florida and Tulane.

Record
64–⁠55–⁠7 career
Seasons
13
Schools
4
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1937 7–⁠1–⁠1, No. 19

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1691 in 1937
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1936North Carolina8–⁠22nd
1937North Carolina7–⁠1–⁠12nd19
1938North Carolina6–⁠2–⁠14th
1939North Carolina8–⁠1–⁠13rd
1940North Carolina6–⁠4T–5th
1941North Carolina3–⁠711th
1942Georgia Pre-Flight7–⁠1–⁠1
1943–⁠45: not a college head coach
1946Florida0–⁠912th
1947Florida4–⁠5–⁠112th
1948Florida5–⁠5T–10th
1949Florida4–⁠5–⁠1T–10th
1950–⁠51: not a college head coach
1952Tulane5–⁠58th
1953Tulane1–⁠8–⁠112th

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.

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 ranked teams235–⁠15–⁠3
Against top-10 teams112–⁠8–⁠1
Against rivals4922–⁠25–⁠2
Conference games7029–⁠38–⁠3
Decided by 8 points or fewer4319–⁠17–⁠7
At home6732–⁠30–⁠5
On the road5228–⁠22–⁠2
At neutral sites74–⁠3
As our Elo’s favorite7254–⁠14–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog5410–⁠41–⁠3

His own 126 games on file, 1936–⁠1953, 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
Gene McEver 1936–⁠19416–⁠0Davidson6
Wallace Wade 1936–⁠19412–⁠4Duke6
Red Dawson 1936–⁠19411–⁠4–⁠1Tulane6
Wallace Butts 1946–⁠19531–⁠5Georgia6
Doc Newton 1937–⁠19414–⁠1NC State5
Frank Murray 1937–⁠19414–⁠1Virginia5
D.C. Walker 1937–⁠19413–⁠2Wake Forest5
Jimmy Crowley 1937–⁠19420–⁠3–⁠2Fordham, North Carolina Pre-Flight5
Mal Stevens 1936–⁠19394–⁠0New York University4
John Vaught 1947–⁠19530–⁠4Ole Miss4

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Tulaneseries92–⁠5–⁠2
NC Stateseries86–⁠2
Auburnseries73–⁠3–⁠1
Dukeseries73–⁠4
Davidsonseries66–⁠0
Virginiaseries65–⁠1
Wake Forestseries64–⁠2
Georgiaseries61–⁠5

Career

YearsTeamJob
1929–⁠35TCULine coach
1936–⁠41North CarolinaHead coach
1942Georgia Pre-Flight service teamHead coach
1946–⁠49FloridaHead coach
1950–⁠51TulaneLine coach
1952–⁠53TulaneHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Raymond Wolf

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (3)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Francis SchmidtTCU1929–⁠33Line coach
Dutch MeyerTCU1934–⁠35Line coach
Henry FrnkaTulane1950–⁠51Line coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
CoachWith himHead coach at
John VaughtNorth Carolina, 1936–⁠41: line coachOle Miss
George BarclayNorth Carolina, 1937–⁠39: assistant freshmenLafayette, Washington and Lee, North Carolina
Jim TatumNorth Carolina, 1939–⁠41: assistant coachNorth Carolina, Oklahoma, Maryland
Bear BryantGeorgia Pre-Flight, 1942: ends coachMaryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M, Alabama
Andy PilneyTulane, 1952–⁠53: backfield coachTulane

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.