George Huff (coach)
 Huff pictured in The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide, 1899 | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 11, 1872 Champaign, Illinois |
| Died | October 1, 1936 (aged 64) Champaign, Illinois |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1890, 1892 | Illinois |
| 1893–1894 | Dartmouth |
| Baseball | |
| 1889–1891, 1893 | Illinois |
| 1894 | Dartmouth |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1895–1899 | Illinois |
| Baseball | |
| 1896–1919 | Illinois |
| 1907 | Boston Americans |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 21–16–3 (football) 317–97–4 (college baseball) 2–6 (MLB) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Baseball 11 Big Ten (1900, 1903–1904, 1906–1908, 1910–1911, 1914–1916) | |
George A. Huff, Jr. (June 11, 1872 – October 1, 1936) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. Huff served as the head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1895 to 1899, compiling a record of 21–16–3. He was also the head baseball coach at Illinois from 1896 to 1919, tallying a mark of 317–97–4, and the athletic director at Illinois from 1901 to 1935. Huff Hall at the University of Illinois in Champaign is named in his honor.
Huff was briefly a manager for the Boston Americans at the start of the 1907 Major League Baseball season following the sudden suicide of Chick Stahl. Cy Young started out as the player/manager, but after six games stepped down in favor of Huff. Huff managed only eight games, finishing with a career 2–6 managerial record, before resigning on May 1, 1907 to return to his old job. Bob Unglaub replaced him. The Americans had a total of four managers in the 1907 season. The team was renamed as the Boston Red Sox the following season.
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Fighting Illini (Illinois Intercollegiate Football League) (1895) | |||||||||
| 1895 | Illinois | 4–2–1 | |||||||
| Illinois Fighting Illini (Big Ten Conference) (1896–1899) | |||||||||
| 1896 | Illinois | 4–2–1 | 0–2–1 | T–6th | |||||
| 1897 | Illinois | 6–2 | 1–1 | 4th | |||||
| 1898 | Illinois | 4–5 | 1–1 | 4th | |||||
| 1899 | Illinois | 3–5–1 | 0–3 | T–6th | |||||
| Illinois: | 21–16–3 | ||||||||
| Total: | 21–16–3 | ||||||||
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References
External links
- Template:CFBCR
- George Huff managerial career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
- George Huff at Find a Grave
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