Top 25
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Dick Harlow
1915-1947 • Colgate, Harvard, Penn State
3 schools coached, anchored by Colgate.
Dick Harlow's coaching record is 71-36-7, highlighted by seasons at Colgate from 1915 to 1947.
Dick Harlow coached 13 seasons, won 65.3%, and posted an average SRS of 9.1. Best season: 1915 Penn State. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 4 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 71-36-7
- Career win rate
- 65.3%
- Average SRS
- 9.1
- Peak SRS
- 21.9
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
- 13
- Career span
- 33 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 12.3
Primary school anchor
Colgate
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 88.3.
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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
- 71-36-7
- Colgate record
- 24-9-3
- Full-season record
- 71-36-7
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
114 countable games, 65.3% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Colgate.
13 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 22, 1947. 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.
Dick Harlow
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Dick Harlow: 1922 ColgateDick Harlow: 1937 Harvard
1915Actual season year • SRS range -9.8 to 21.91947
Active comparison point
Dick Harlow • 1915
1915 Penn State
Best season7-2 • SRS 21.9 • SP Overall —
Win %
77.8%
YoY SRS
—
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.
Top 10
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Harvard
1946-1947 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -2.8 • Win % 61.1%
Harvard
1937-1940 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 4.9 • Win % 56.3%
Colgate
1922-1925 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 11.6 • Win % 70.8%
Penn State
1915-1917 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 19.3 • Win % 71.4%
- Longest tenure
- Harvard • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Penn State • 19.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Penn State • 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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dick Harlow
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.
Harvard
1946-1947 • 11-7
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -2.8Win % 61.1%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Harvard
1937-1940 • 16-12-4
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 4.9Win % 56.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Colgate
1922-1925 • 24-9-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 11.6Win % 70.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Penn State
1915-1917 • 20-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 19.3Win % 71.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.7 during vs 5.6 baseline
+1.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
19.3 during vs 16.0 baseline
+3.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
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Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Penn State 1915
7-2 • SRS 21.9
Biggest Improvement
Colgate 1925
7-0-2 • 23.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Harvard 1947
4-5 • SRS -9.8
Biggest Drop
Harvard 1939
4-4 • -14.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Harvard | 1947 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -9.8 | — | — | — | -14.0 | -33.3% | Season summary |
| Harvard | 1946 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 4.2 | — | — | — | -1.1 | +21.5% | Season summary |
| Harvard | 1940 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 56.3% | — | — | 5.3 | — | — | — | +12.0 | +6.3% | Season summary |
| Harvard | 1939 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -6.7 | — | — | — | -14.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Harvard | 1938 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.5 | — | — | — | -5.9 | -18.8% | Season summary |
| Harvard | 1937 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 68.8% | — | — | 13.4 | — | — | — | -7.6 | -20.1% | Season summary |
| Colgate | 1925 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 88.9% | — | — | 21.0 | — | — | — | +23.9 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Colgate | 1924 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -2.9 | — | — | — | -13.6 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Colgate | 1923 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 10.7 | — | — | — | -6.7 | +5.6% | Season summary |
| Colgate | 1922 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 17.4 | — | — | — | +0.8 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1917 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | 16.6 | — | — | — | -2.9 | -24.4% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1916 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 19.5 | — | — | — | -2.4 | +2.2% | Season summary |
| Penn State | 1915 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 21.9 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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