Despite coaching Melbourne's second premiership back in 1926, he was their last surviving premiership coach.

The others being Ross Lyon and Allan Jeans, St Kilda's 1966 premiership coach.

He was later a premiership coach at Ganmain-Grong.

He is also the youngest premiership coach since Alex Jesaulenko in 1979 to win a Grand Final.

Pascoe is also the leading premiership coach with Hobart, having coached the club to three flags in 1959, 1960 and 1963.

Before coming to Essendon he had been a premiership coach at South Barwon.

His first senior assistant coach was former premiership coach of Port Adelaide, Mark Williams.

His 272 games as coach is the second most by a Collingwood player and he was a premiership winning coach in 1953 and 1958.

The AFL has retrospectively made this award to each premiership coach since 1950, the year after McHale retired as a coach.

In 2000 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for being a five-time premiership winning coach.