George Little (American football coach), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Little (American football coach)

American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 27-May-1889

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 23-Feb-1957

Profession: basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About George Little (American football coach)

  • George Edkin Little (May 27, 1889 – February 23, 1957) was an American football player, and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. Little attended Ohio Wesleyan University from which he graduated in 1912.
  • He served as the head football coach at the University of Cincinnati (1914–1915), Miami University (1916, 1919–1921), the University of Michigan (1924), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1925–1926), compiling a career college football record of 54–16–4.
  • Little was also the head basketball coach at Cincinnati (1914–1916) and Miami (1916–1917, 1919–1922), tallying a career college basketball mark of 47–38. In addition to coaching, Little served as the athletic director at Wisconsin (1925–1932) and Rutgers University (1932–1953) and as the executive secretary of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.
  • He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1955.

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