W.H. Lillard

W.H. Lillard went 0–⁠1–⁠1 as a head coach in the games on file: 1909 at Dartmouth. His full head-coaching career isn’t in our records. Wikipedia’s season articles record one season differently (1909, 5–⁠1–⁠2); by them his record is 5–⁠1–⁠2.

Record
0–⁠1–⁠1 games on file
Seasons
1
Schools
1
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1909 0–⁠1–⁠1

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1909Dartmouth0–⁠1–⁠1 (Wikipedia: 5–⁠1–⁠2)

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 rivals10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer10–⁠0–⁠1
On the road20–⁠1–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog20–⁠1–⁠1

His own two games on file, 1909, 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
Harvardseries10–⁠1
Princetonseries10–⁠0–⁠1

Coaching tree

W.H. Lillard

Assistants who became head coaches

  • Tom KeadyLehigh, Vermont, Case Western Reserve
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Tom KeadyDartmouth, 1909: assistant coachLehigh, Vermont, Case Western Reserve

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.