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- Games
- 7
- Win rate
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Charles Caldwell
1946-1956 • Princeton
One defining program at Princeton.
Charles Caldwell's coaching record is 68-27-1, highlighted by seasons at Princeton from 1946 to 1956.
Charles Caldwell coached 11 seasons, won 71.4%, and posted an average SRS of 0.8. Best season: 1950 Princeton. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 68-27-1
- Career win rate
- 71.4%
- Average SRS
- 0.8
- Peak SRS
- 13.5
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 11
- Career span
- 11 years
- Best finish
- #6
- Consistency
- 20.0
Primary school anchor
Princeton
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 69.9.
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Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 68-27-1
- Princeton record
- 68-27-1
- Full-season record
- 68-27-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
96 countable games, 71.4% win rate.
11 countable seasons at Princeton.
11 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 24, 1956. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Charles Caldwell
EliteStrongAverageLean
1946Actual season year • SRS range -17.4 to 13.51956
Active comparison point
Charles Caldwell • 1950
1950 Princeton
Best season9-0 • SRS 13.5 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+9.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#6
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results7
| 1953 Regular Week 5 | Princeton | Navy | #10 | L7-65 |
| 1952 Regular Week 5 | Princeton | Pennsylvania | #11 | L7-13 |
| 1949 Regular Week 7 | Princeton | Cornell | #17 | L12-14 |
| 1949 Regular Week 5 | Princeton | Pennsylvania | #20 | L13-14 |
| 1948 Regular Week 5 | Princeton | Pennsylvania | #7 | L7-29 |
| 1947 Regular Week 8 | Princeton | Pennsylvania | #8 | L7-26 |
| 1946 Regular Week 8 | Princeton | Pennsylvania | #14 | W17-14 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Princeton
1946-1956 • 11 seasons
Avg SRS 0.8 • Win % 71.4%
- Longest tenure
- Princeton • 11 seasons
- Best tenure
- Princeton • 0.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Princeton • 71.4%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
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Overall Strength
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Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Charles Caldwell
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Princeton
1946-1956 • 68-27-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 0.8Win % 71.4%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Princeton 1950
9-0 • SRS 13.5
Biggest Improvement
Princeton 1954
5-3-1 • 10.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Princeton 1953
5-4 • SRS -17.4
Biggest Drop
Princeton 1953
5-4 • -27.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Princeton | 1956 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -6.2 | — | — | — | +1.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1955 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -7.8 | — | — | — | -1.1 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1954 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | -6.7 | — | — | — | +10.7 | +5.6% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1953 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | #19 | — | -17.4 | — | — | — | -27.8 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1952 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | #14 | #19 | 10.4 | — | — | — | -1.3 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1951 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #18 | #6 | 11.7 | — | — | — | -1.8 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1950 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #6 | 13.5 | — | — | — | +9.8 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1949 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | #18 | 3.7 | — | — | — | -1.2 | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1948 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 4.9 | — | — | — | +1.6 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1947 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | 3.3 | — | — | — | +3.3 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Princeton | 1946 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 37.5% | — | — | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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