George Huff | |
Birth Date: | 11 June 1872 |
Birth Place: | Champaign, Illinois, U.S. |
Death Place: | Champaign, Illinois, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1890, 1892 |
Player Team2: | Illinois |
Player Years3: | 1893–1894 |
Player Team3: | Dartmouth |
Player Sport4: | Baseball |
Player Years5: | 1889–1891, 1893 |
Player Team5: | Illinois |
Player Years6: | 1894 |
Player Team6: | Dartmouth |
Player Positions: | Guard (football) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1895–1899 |
Coach Team2: | Illinois |
Coach Sport3: | Baseball |
Coach Years4: | 1896–1919 |
Coach Team4: | Illinois |
Coach Years5: | 1907 |
Coach Team5: | Boston Americans |
Admin Years1: | 1901–1936 |
Admin Team1: | Illinois |
Overall Record: | 21–16–3 (football) 317–97–4 (college baseball) 2–6 (MLB) |
Championships: | Baseball 11 Big Ten (1900, 1903–1904, 1906–1908, 1910–1911, 1914–1916) |
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.
Team | Year | Regular season | Postseason | ||||||||
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Games | Won | Lost | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | |||
BOA | 8 | 2 | 6 | resigned | – | – | – | – | |||
Total | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | – |
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