| Bill Jennings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Head Coach | |
| College | Nebraska | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 15-34-1 (.310) | |
| Bowls | 0-0 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1957-61 | Nebraska | |
Bill Jennings was a college football coach, the head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1957-61. He coached the Huskers for five losing seasons, compiling a 15-34-1 record (.310). His best seasons were 1959 and 1960, when the Huskers were 4-6 both years. His record in the Big Eight Conference was 9-23 (.281) and his Husker teams never won more than two conference games per season.
Among his most notable upsets was the ending of Bud Wilkinson's 74-straight conference victories: the Cornhuskers beat the Oklahoma Sooners 17-14 at Nebraska's 1959 homecoming game on Halloween. Jennings followed up a second consecutive win the following year with a 25-21 victory in Norman. The 1959 win was the first for Nebraska since 1942, and the 1959-60 wins were the first consecutive victories over the Sooners since 1939-42.[1]
After a 3-6-1 season in 1961, Jennings was succeeded by Bob Devaney, who had been successful at Wyoming. Devaney immediately turned the Nebraska program around; the 1962 Huskers went 8-2 in the regular season and won the Gotham Bowl, Nebraska's first bowl appearance in 8 years and the first of 41 consecutive winning seasons.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Coaches# | AP° | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Seven Conference) (1957–59) | |||||||||
| 1957 | Nebraska | 1-9 | 1-5 | ||||||
| 1958 | Nebraska | 3-7 | 2-4 | ||||||
| 1959 | Nebraska | 4-6 | 2-4 | ||||||
| Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Eight Conference) (1960–61) | |||||||||
| 1960 | Nebraska | 4-6 | 2-5 | ||||||
| 1961 | Nebraska | 3-6-1 | 2-5 | ||||||
| Nebraska: | 15–34–1 | 9-23 | |||||||
| Bowl Record: | 0-0 | ||||||||
| Total: | 15–34–1 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. #both. | |||||||||
Through the 1973 season, the final UPI coaches poll was conducted before the bowl games.
References
- ^ http://espn.go.com/classic/s/ou_neb_record.html ESPN Classic: Oklahoma vs. Nebraska -- Series record
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Pete Elliott |
University of Nebraska Cornhuskers Head Football Coach 1957–1961 |
Succeeded by Bob Devaney |
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