George Huff (coach), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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baseball and American football player and coach
Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1872
Place of Birth: Champaign, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 01-Oct-1936
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About George Huff (coach)
- 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.
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