Jesse Burbage | |
Birth Date: | 22 February 1894 |
Birth Place: | Shelbyville, Kentucky, U.S. |
Death Place: | Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Basketball |
Player Years2: | 1914–1918 |
Player Team2: | Auburn |
Player Positions: | Guard |
Coach Sport1: | Basketball |
Coach Years2: | 1922–1924 |
Coach Team2: | Trinity (NC) |
Coach Years3: | 1927–1929 |
Coach Team3: | Florida Southern |
Coach Sport4: | Football |
Coach Years5: | 1927–1929 |
Coach Team5: | Florida Southern |
Overall Record: | 53–25 (basketball) 5–2–1 (football) |
Jesse Samuel Burbage (February 22, 1894 – December 5, 1957) was an American basketball player and coach. He was a four-year starter at the guard position for the Auburn Tigers from 1914 to 1918. Burbage served as the head coach of the Trinity Blue and White (now the Duke Blue Devils) from 1922 to 1924.[1]
Burbage later served as an Army colonel. Circa 1951, he became administrator of the City-County Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, where he would serve for six years until his death. He died on December 5, 1957, at Huntsville Hospital.[2] [3]