George Huff (coach)
Biographical details | |
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Born | Champaign, Illinois | June 11, 1872
Died | October 1, 1936 Champaign, Illinois | (aged 64)
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 | ||||
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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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