Tal Stafford, head coach at NC State
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Tal Stafford

Tal Stafford went 1–⁠3 as a head coach, 1918, at NC State.

Record
1–⁠3 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1918 1–⁠3

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1918NC State1–⁠3T–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 rivals10–⁠1
Conference games10–⁠1
At home21–⁠1
On the road20–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite21–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog20–⁠2

His own four games on file, 1918, 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
Guilfordseries11–⁠0
Georgia Techseries10–⁠1
Wake Forestseries10–⁠1
Virginia Techseries10–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1917NC StateAssistant coach
1918NC StateHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Tal Stafford
Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Harry HartsellNC State1917Assistant 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.