Tim Pendergast (born August 15, 1958) is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at

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in 2000 and at

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from 2001 to 2003, compiling a career head coaching record of 9–28. Pendergast graduated from

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and earned a master's degree from

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, where he began his coaching career as an assistant in 1980. He was then an assistant coach at Cornell from 1981 to 1989. Pendergast was fired from his position at Cornell in November 2003. He 2003 Cornell team lost its final nine games to finish the season with a record of 1–9 and last place in the

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. The nine-game losing streak was the second-longest in the history of the

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program, topped only a ten-game losing streak in 1975 and 1976 under head coach

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. In his three seasons as head coach Cornell, Pendergast's teams had an overall record of 7–22 with a mark of 5–16 in Ivy League play.

Head coaching record

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