George Cobb | |
Birth Date: | 26 August 1885 |
Birth Place: | Granby, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Death Place: | Salisbury, Maryland, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1907 |
Player Team2: | Massachusetts |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1909–1911 |
Coach Team2: | Rhode Island State |
Coach Years3: | 1913–1914 |
Coach Team3: | Rhode Island State |
Coach Sport4: | Basketball |
Coach Years5: | 1910–1913 |
Coach Team5: | Rhode Island State |
Admin Years1: | 1909–1916 |
Admin Team1: | Rhode Island State |
Overall Record: | 17–16–5 (football) 13–9 (basketball) |
George Robert Cobb (August 26, 1885 – February 13, 1957) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now known as the University of Rhode Island—from 1909 to 1911 and again from 1913 to 1914, compiling a record of a 17–16–5. Cobb was also the head basketball coach at Rhode Island State from 1910 to 1913, tallying a mark of 13–9, and the school's athletic director from 1909 to 1916. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1908. Cobb died on February 13, 1957, as Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury, Maryland.[1]