Boston College
1937-1938 • 10-5-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 2.8Win % 63.9%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
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Gilmour Dobie
1916-1938 • Boston College, Cornell, Navy, Washington
4 schools coached, anchored by Cornell.
Gilmour Dobie's coaching record is 115-44-11, highlighted by seasons at Cornell from 1916 to 1938.
Gilmour Dobie coached 22 seasons, won 70.9%, and posted an average SRS of 6.3. Best season: 1923 Cornell. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 4 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 115-44-11
- Career win rate
- 70.9%
- Average SRS
- 6.3
- Peak SRS
- 29.8
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
- 22
- Career span
- 23 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 2.1
Primary school anchor
Cornell
Balanced profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 96.7.
Quick Answers
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
- 115-44-11
- Cornell record
- 82-36-7
- Full-season record
- 109-43-11
- Partial-season record
- 6-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
170 countable games, 70.9% win rate.
16 countable seasons at Cornell.
21 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
0 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 26, 1938. 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.
Gilmour Dobie
EliteStrongAverageLean
Gilmour Dobie: 1917 NavyGilmour Dobie: 1920 CornellGilmour Dobie: 1937 Boston College
1916Actual season year • SRS range -20.6 to 29.81938
Active comparison point
Gilmour Dobie • 1923
1923 Cornell
Best season8-0 • SRS 29.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+3.1
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
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.
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Boston College
1937-1938 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 2.8 • Win % 63.9%
Cornell
1920-1935 • 16 seasons
Avg SRS 3.8 • Win % 68.4%
Navy
1917-1919 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 24.7 • Win % 85.0%
Washington
1916-1916 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 17.0 • Win % 92.9%
- Longest tenure
- Cornell • 16 seasons
- Best tenure
- Navy • 24.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Washington • 92.9%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Gilmour Dobie
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.
Cornell
1920-1935 • 82-36-7
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 3.8Win % 68.4%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Navy
1917-1919 • 17-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 24.7Win % 85.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 5.6 baseline
-0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
27.4 during vs 11.2 baseline
+16.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Washington
1916-1916 • 6-0-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 17.0Win % 92.9%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Cornell 1923
8-0 • SRS 29.8
Biggest Improvement
Cornell 1929
6-2 • 21.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Cornell 1928
3-3-2 • SRS -20.6
Biggest Drop
Cornell 1924
4-4 • -24.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Boston College | 1938 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 77.8% | — | — | 6.6 | — | — | — | +7.7 | +27.8% | Season summary |
| Boston College | 1937 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -1.1 | — | — | — | +13.5 | +42.9% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1935 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7.1% | — | — | -14.6 | — | — | — | -8.2 | -21.4% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1934 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 28.6% | — | — | -6.4 | — | — | — | -4.3 | -28.6% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1933 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | -2.1 | — | — | — | -8.8 | -11.6% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1932 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 68.8% | — | — | 6.7 | — | — | — | -3.0 | -18.8% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1931 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | — | — | 9.7 | — | — | — | +12.0 | +12.5% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1930 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | -2.3 | — | — | — | -3.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1929 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 0.7 | — | — | — | +21.3 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1928 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 50.0% | — | — | -20.6 | — | — | — | -8.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1927 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 50.0% | — | — | -12.5 | — | — | — | -11.6 | -31.3% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1926 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 81.3% | — | — | -0.9 | — | — | — | -8.2 | +6.3% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1925 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 7.3 | — | — | — | +1.8 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1924 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | -24.3 | -50.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1923 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 29.8 | — | — | — | +3.1 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1922 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 26.7 | — | — | — | +0.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1921 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 26.5 | — | — | — | +19.1 | +25.0% | Season summary |
| Cornell | 1920 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 7.4 | — | — | — | -14.6 | -10.7% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1919 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.7% | — | — | 22.0 | — | — | — | — | +5.7% | Partial season |
| Navy | 1918 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -7.5% | Season summary |
| Navy | 1917 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | — | — | 27.4 | — | — | — | +10.4 | -5.4% | Season summary |
| Washington | 1916 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 92.9% | — | — | 17.0 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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