George Blankley Explained

George Blankley
Birth Date:7 October 1918
Birth Place:Curwensville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:Madison, South Dakota, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:c. 1940
Player Team2:College of Idaho
Player Sport3:Baseball
Player Years4:c. 1940
Player Team4:College of Idaho
Player Years5:1941
Player Team5:Boise Pilots
Player Positions:End (football)
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1948–1949
Coach Team2:Boise JC (assistant)
Coach Years3:1950–1951
Coach Team3:Boise JC
Coach Years4:1962–1969
Coach Team4:General Beadle / Dakota State
Coach Sport5:Basketball
Coach Years6:1947–1948
Coach Team6:Caldwell HS (ID)
Coach Years7:1948–1962
Coach Team7:Boise JC
Admin Years1:1962–?
Admin Team1:General Beadle / Dakota State
Overall Record:27–39–1 (college football)
15–2 (junior college football)
206–139 (junior college basketball)
Championships:Football
2 Intermountain Collegiate (1950–1951)

Basketball
3 Intermountain Collegiate (1956–1958)

George C. Blankley (October 7, 1918 – December 29, 2016)[1] was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Boise Junior College—now Boise State University—from 1948 to 1962, compiling a record of 206–139. Blankey was also the head football coach at Boise Junior College from the middle of the 1950 season through the 1951 season, assuming the responsibility after Coach Lyle Smith was called into the United States Navy during the early part of the Korean War.[2] Blankley compiled a record of 16–2 as head football coach of BJC. In 1962 was hired as athletic director and head football coach at General Beadle State College—now known as Dakota State University—in Madison, South Dakota.[3] He resigned as head football coach following the 1969 season, compiling a record of 27–39–1 in eight seasons.[4]

Blankley was born in Curwensville, Pennsylvania, and grew up playing football, basketball, and baseball. He attended the College of Idaho, where he played football, as an end, and baseball. Blankey graduated from college in 1941. He played minor league baseball with the Boise Pilots of the Pioneer Baseball League that year[5] before becoming the athletic director and coach at Kuna High School. From 1943 to 1945, he taught physical education at his alma mater and then served as a physical trainer in the United States Marines. In 1948, Blankley was coaching basketball at Caldwell High School in Caldwell, Idaho.[6]

Head coaching record

College football

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obituary for George Blankley. Weiland Funeral Chapel. June 5, 2020.
  2. News: Boise College – An Idea Grows . Boise State University . 1950 . 4.
  3. News: . General Beadle Hires New Football Coach . The Daily Republic . . July 26, 1962 . 10 . December 28, 2017 . .
  4. News: . Trojans' Blankley Resigns . . . November 17, 1969 . 13 . December 28, 2017 . .
  5. News: Boise Pilots Play Coyotes If Field Dries . . April 11, 1941 . October 13, 2011.
  6. Book: Ourada, Patricia K. . The Broncos: A History of Boise State University athletics, 1932–1994 . 1994 . . . 0-932129-17-X . 45 . October 13, 2011.