Talk:Earl J. Merritt

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Hi Jweiss11—thanks for creating this page! (I'm glad to see the redlinks dwindling at List of Pomona College people as it undergoes FLC.) Regarding the question of the Category:Pomona College alumni, I think it's needed, since e.g. Category:Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens baseball players is a subcategory of both Pomona and Pitzer due to the joint nature of the team, so categorizing just under that isn't sufficient to signify that he attended Pomona. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 02:17, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Sdkb, thanks for the note. You bring up a good point that joint nature of the Pomona-Pitzer sports teams. I reverted my edit here and removed the alumni categories from the football/basketball/baseball player categories since one who plays for the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens is likely an alumnus of one school or the other, but not both. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:52, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Sounds good; thanks! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 03:00, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Overall record

Do you know why there's a discrepancy in the overall coaching record between some of the sources? E.g. [1] vs. [2]. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:47, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Sdkb, I'm not sure where the 95–59–9 record on the Sagehens website comes from. The 93–67–13 record quoted in the 1960 news articles jives more with other sources that break things down year by year. The NCAA website reports 94–67–13 and the now-defunct College Football Data Warehouse has records that add up to 93–67–13; see here. The difference between the NCAA records and the College Football Data Warehouse is the 1938 season. Was Pomona 6–0–1 or 7–0–1? The Head coaching record table I created on the article here matches up with the College Football Data Warehouse, but the 1938 season deserves some more investigation. The conference records I have are sourced to contemporary news articles. See for example: Template:1939 Southern California Conference football standings. Jweiss11 (talk) 16:38, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Hmm interesting; I guess things can get a little fuzzy that far back. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 18:53, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Yes, they can get very fuzzy especially for smaller and defunct programs. This listing of season scores in the Los Angeles Times from November 27, 1938 suggests Pomona was 6–0–1 in 1938. Jweiss11 (talk) 19:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC)