George Roark | |
Birth Date: | 7 October 1898 |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1919–1921 |
Player Team2: | Bethany (WV) |
Player Sport3: | Basketball |
Player Years4: | 1920–1922 |
Player Team4: | Bethany (WV) |
Player Years5: | 1923–1924 |
Player Team5: | Bethany (WV) |
Player Sport6: | Baseball |
Player Years7: | 1921–1922 |
Player Team7: | Bethany (WV) |
Player Years8: | 1924–1925 |
Player Team8: | Bethany (WV) |
Player Positions: | End (football) Forward (basketball) Catcher (baseball) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1929 |
Coach Team2: | Follansbee HS (WV) |
Coach Years3: | 1930–1935 |
Coach Team3: | New Brighton HS (PA) |
Coach Years4: | 1936 |
Coach Team4: | Westminster (PA) |
Coach Years5: | 1937–1940 |
Coach Team5: | Washington & Jefferson |
Coach Years6: | 1941–? |
Coach Team6: | New Brighton HS (PA) |
Overall Record: | 18–18–3 (college) |
George Wheeler Roark (October 7, 1898 – March 31, 1993) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and track. He served as the head football coach at Westminster College of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania in 1936 and at Washington & Jefferson College from 1937 to 1940, compiling a career college football record of 18–18–3. Roark also coached basketball and track at Westminster.
Roark was a native of Altavista, Virginia. He attended Bethany College in West Virginia, where he lettered in football, basketball, and baseball, and graduated with the class of 1925.[1] He played catcher on the baseball team with pitcher Ed Wells, who went on to play Major League Baseball. Roarke resigned from his post at Washington & Jefferson in December 1940 to coach football at New Brighton, Pennsylvania's high school, where he had coached football and basketball from 1930 to 1935.[2] In his first stint at New Brighton, his football teams tallied a mark of 33–9–3.[3]