George Palfreyman | |
Birth Date: | 17 May 1893 |
Death Place: | Topeka, Kansas, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Basketball |
Player Years2: | 1912–1915 |
Player Team2: | Missouri |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1916–1917 |
Coach Team2: | Maryville Normal |
Coach Sport3: | Basketball |
Coach Years4: | 1915–1918 |
Coach Team4: | Maryville Normal |
Overall Record: | 2–13 (football) 19–10 (basketball) |
George "Speed" Palfreyman Jr. (May 17, 1893 – November 7, 1936) was an American college football and college basketball coach. He was the second head football coach at Fifth District Normal School—now known as Northwest Missouri State University—in Maryville, Missouri, serving for two seasons, from 1916 to 1917, and compiling a record of 2–13. He was also the school's head basketball coach from 1915 to 1918, tallying a mark of 19–10.
After graduating from Benton High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, Palfreyman played basketball at the University of Missouri from 1912 to 1915 and was captain of the team in 1914–15. He taught at a high school in Maryville and was then employed by the Goodrich Tire Company as an assistant manager in Milwaukee. He also worked for Goodrich in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. Palfreyman died at the age of 43, on November 7, 1936, at the home of his parents in Topeka, Kansas.[1] [2]