Stanford legend Ernie Nevers Coaching Records Football History Stanford Coaching History Coaching Records Seasons Coach Years Won Lost Tied Pct. Points Opp. Seasons Coach Years Won Lost Tied Pct. Points Opp. 1891 No Coach 1 3 1 0 .750 52 26 1933-39 C.E. Thornhill 7 35 25 7 .574 745 499 1892, ’94-95 Walter Camp 3 11 3 3 .735 178 89 1940-41 Clark Shaughnessy 2 16 3 0 .842 356 180 1893 Pop Bliss 1 8 0 1 .944 284 17 1942, ’46-50 Marchmont Schwartz 6 28 28 4 .500 1,217 886 1896, 98 H.P. Cross 2 7 4 2 .615 123 66 1951-57 Charles A. Taylor 7 40 29 2 .577 1,429 1,290 1897 G.H. Brooke 1 4 1 0 .800 54 26 1958-62 Jack C. Curtice 5 14 36 0 .280 665 1,078 1899 Burr Chamberlain 1 2 5 2 .333 61 78 1963-71 John Ralston 9 55 36 3 .601 1,975 1,486 1900 Fielding H. Yost 1 7 2 1 .750 154 20 1972-76 Jack Christiansen 5 30 22 3 .573 1,268 1,214 1901 C.M. Fickert 1 3 2 2 .571 34 57 1979 Rod Dowhower 1 5 5 1 .500 259 239 1902 C.L. Clemans 1 6 1 0 .857 111 37 1980-83 Paul Wiggin 4 16 28 0 .364 1,113 1,146 1903-08 James F. Lanagan 6 49 10 5 .804 981 190 1984-88 Jack Elway 5 25 29 2 .463 1,263 1,267 1909-12 George Presley 4 30 8 1 .782 745 159 1989-91 Dennis Green 3 16 18 0 .471 801 770 1913-16 Floyd C. Brown 4 37 4 1 .892 1,040 365 1977-78, ’92-94 Bill Walsh 5 34 24 1 .585 1,525 1,441 1917 Jim Wylie 1 1 0 0 1.000 15 11 1995-2001 Tyrone Willingham 7 44 36 1 .549 2,191 1,904 1918 No Official Schedule 2002-present Buddy Teevens 2 6 16 0 .273 411 701 1919 Bob Evans 1 4 3 0 .571 130 46 Totals 109 626 408 52 .600 21,794 16,505 1920 Walter Powell 1 4 3 0 .571 82 65 1921 C.E. Van Gent 1 4 2 2 .625 100 97 1922-23 Andrew Kerr 2 11 7 0 .611 347 142 1924-32 Glenn “Pop” Warner 9 71 17 8 .781 1,985 588 Glenn S. “Pop” Warner is generally regarded as one of the NFL Hall of Famer Bill Walsh led the Cardinal to Sun, John Ralston coached Stanford to consecutive Rose Bowl all-time great college coaches. Bluebonnet and Blockbuster Bowl victories as Stanford’s victories in 1971 and ’72. head football coach. 228 2004 STANFORD FOOTBALL Head Coach Biographies Football History In the Beginning Glenn “Pop” Warner 1891-99 Walter Camp, Stanford’s first coach 1924-32 On March 19, 1892, Stanford played its first intercol- Glenn Scobey “Pop” Warner coached on The Farm legiate football game vs. California – a game in for nine seasons, during which time he put Stanford which Stanford had no coach, but still managed to on the map as one of the premier college football defeat the more experienced Bears 14-10. Stanford’s programs in the nation. Warner, who compiled a 71- first official football coach was the legendary Walter 17-8 (.781) record at Stanford, is considered one of Camp. Camp coached Stanford in 1892 and again in the greatest college football coaches of all-time. 1894 and 1895. He was 11-3-3 in his three years. During his nine-year stay at Stanford, Warner’s Considered the “Father of American Football,” teams won three Pacific Coast Conference champi- Camp was an outstanding halfback at Yale who voluntarily took on the job of onships, one national championship (1926) and participated in three Rose Bowls. becoming Stanford’s football coach. In between and after Camp’s three years, In 1926, his team put together a 10-0-1 record and won the unofficial national Stanford’s early coaches included Pop Bliss (1893), Harry Cross (1896, ’98), George championship. The only blemish on that record was a 7-7 tie vs. Alabama in the Brooke (1897) and Burr Chamberlain (1899). Rose Bowl. Warner’s two other Rose Bowl teams lost to Notre Dame in the 1925 Rose Bowl and beat Pittsburgh in the 1928 Rose Bowl. Warner, a member of the The Transition Era College Football Hall of Fame, is credited by football historians with inventing the 1900-12 Fielding Yost, Head Coach 1900 single and double wing offensive attacks, the reverse play, crouching start, huddles between plays, numbers for players, headgear and various hidden ball plays. Warner Stanford’s second decade of football included five is the second all-time winningest coach in college football history with a career head football coaches and a transition from football record of 341-118-33. to rugby. Fielding “Hurry Up” Yost was Stanford’s coach in 1900, leading his team to a 7-2-1 record. Claude “Tiny” Thornhill The following season, Yost was the head coach at 1933-39 Michigan while former Stanford great Charlie Fickert took over the head coaching position on The Claude C.E. “Tiny” Thornhill was named to replace Farm. Fickert’s only season in 1901 culminated in a the legendary Pop Warner as Stanford’s football Rose Bowl matchup with Yost and Michigan on January 1, 1902. From 1903-08, coach in 1933. His seven year record on The Farm James Lanagan went 49-10-5 as head coach of the football team in 1903-05 and the was 35-25-7 and it included three appearances in the rugby team in 1906-08. George Presley replaced Lanagan in 1909 and went 30-8-1 Rose Bowl. As coach of the “Vow Boys,” Thornhill in four seasons as Stanford’s rugby coach. remains the only coach in school history to lead his Return to Football team to three consecutive Rose Bowls. His Indian team went 8-2-1 in 1933 and lost a 7-0 decision to 1913-21 Jim Wylie, Head Coach 1917 Columbia in the Rose Bowl. He went 9-1-1 in his second year, played in the Rose Bowl and lost to Alabama 29-13. In his third season on The Farm – and final year Stanford continued to play rugby instead of football with the “Vow Boys” – Thornhill led his team to an 8-1 record and another appear- until 1917, when World War I limited play to just ance in the Rose Bowl, this time defeating SMU 7-0. He was 25-4-2 after three sea- one rugby game. Floyd Brown replaced Presley as sons at the helm of the Indian football program. But, his final four teams went 10- rugby coach in 1913 and over the next four years, he 21-5 and in 1939, following a 1-7-1 season, Thornhill resigned. posted an impressive record of 37-4-1. After an unofficial schedule in 1918 following the War, Clark Shaughnessy Stanford returned to football for the 1919 season. Three coaches in three years followed, including Bob 1940-41 Evans in 1919, Walter Powell in 1920 and C.E. Van Gent in 1921 He was called the mad scientist and eccentric, Andrew Kerr obsessed with football strategy. He was recognized as 1922-23 changing the face of football, of revolutionizing the game as never before. In just two years at Stanford, Clark Shaughnessy not only chalked up a 16-3 Andy Kerr’s contribution to Stanford University record, but he introduced the T-Formation to the goes far beyond his two-year stint as head football world – and football was never the same. coach (1922-23) and four-year reign as men’s bas- Shaughnessy’s new offense made its debut on ketball coach (1923-26). He compiled a record of 11- September 28, 1940, and it took the college football world by surprise. Coming off 7 as the head football coach and 42-18 as head bas- a 1-7-1 season in 1939, Shaughnessy’s 1940 team went 10-0, including a 21-13 vic- ketball coach. Kerr came to Stanford in 1922 as a fill- tory over Nebraska in the Rose Bowl. It is this game that is considered the clincher in until Pop Warner arrived on The Farm in 1924. that convinced football pundits that the “T” was the offense of the future. Warner, then the head coach at Pittsburgh, had two Shaughnessy, who coached the “Wow Boys” in 1940, resigned following a 6-3 sea- years remaining on his contract and would not be available to coach at Stanford son in 1941. until the 1924 season. A former member of Warner’s staff at Pittsburgh, Kerr was sent to Stanford by Warner to coach the football team along with Tiny Thornhill. Known as a perfectionist and tough task-master, Kerr’s orders were to install the “Warner System,” complete with the double-wing attack, tricky reverses, multiple ball-handling and pulling lineman. By Warner’s instructions, Kerr was always mindful that he was building for the future. His teams went 4-5 in 1922 and 7-2 in 1923. Those two years, however, laid the groundwork for perhaps the greatest era of Stanford football. Kerr was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. 2004 STANFORD FOOTBALL 229 Head Coach Biographies Football History Jack Curtice 1958-62 “Cactus” Jack Curtice, who had tremendous success as a head coach at Utah, West Texas State and Texas Western, was named to replace Chuck Taylor in 1958.