Gee Mitchell Explained

Gee Mitchell
Birth Date:15 March 1912
Birth Place:Rayville, Louisiana, U.S.
Death Place:Thibodaux, Louisiana, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1932–1933
Player Team2:LSU
Player Positions:Guard
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1935–1943
Coach Team2:Southwestern Louisiana (line)
Coach Years3:1947–1949
Coach Team3:Southwestern Louisiana
Coach Sport4:Boxing
Coach Years5:1935–1944
Coach Team5:Southwestern Louisiana
Admin Years1:1946–1949
Admin Team1:Southwestern Louisiana
Overall Record:18–8–1 (football)

George "Gee" Mitchell (March 15, 1912 – October 27, 1984) was an American football and boxing coach and college athletic administrator. He served as the head football coach at the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) from 1947 to 1949, compiling a record of 18–8–1.

A native of Rayville, Louisiana, Mitchell was a letterman while playing guard for LSU during their 1932 and 1933 seasons.[1] Mitchell was hired at Southwestern Louisiana in 1935 to serve as both head boxing coach and as line coach on the football team.[2] After leaving the program to serve in the Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945, Mitchell returned to Southwestern as athletic director in 1946 and then as head football coach from 1947 to 1949.[2] In 1950, Mitchell accepted a position at then Francis T. Nicholls Junior College (now known as Nicholls State University) to establish its athletics program.[3] He remained at Nicholls through 1973 when he retired as a full professor.[2]

Head coaching record

College football

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LSU Football All-Time Letterwinners . LSUSports.net . LSU Athletics . January 5, 2021.
  2. Book: Wallenfeldt . E.C. . The Six-minute Fraternity: The Rise and Fall of NCAA Tournament Boxing, 1932–60 . 1994 . Greenwood Publishing Group . 122 . 9780275948672 . January 5, 2021.
  3. News: Gee Mitchell will coach at Thibodaux . January 5, 2021 . Daily World . Newspapers.com . May 25, 1950.