George Huff (coach)

George Huff
Biographical details
Huff pictured in The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide, 1899
Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Born	(1872-06-11)June 11, 1872 Champaign, Illinois
Died	October 1, 1936(1936-10-01) (aged 64) Champaign, Illinois
Playing career
Football
1890, 1892	Illinois
1893–1894	Dartmouth
Baseball
1889–1891, 1893	Illinois
1894	Dartmouth
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1895–1899	Illinois
Baseball
1896–1919	Illinois
1907	Boston Americans
Head coaching record
Overall	21–16–3 (football) 317–97–4 (college baseball) 2–6 (MLB)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
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.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Illinois Fighting Illini (Illinois Intercollegiate Football League) (1895)
1895	Illinois	4–2–1
Illinois Fighting Illini (Big Ten Conference) (1896–1899)
1896	Illinois	4–2–1	0–2–1	T–6th
1897	Illinois	6–2	1–1	4th
1898	Illinois	4–5	1–1	4th
1899	Illinois	3–5–1	0–3	T–6th
Illinois:		21–16–3
Total:		21–16–3

References

External links

George Huff at the College Football Data Warehouse
George Huff managerial career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com

George Huff at Find a Grave

Illinois Fighting Illini head football coaches

Scott Williams (1890)
Robert Lackey (1891)
Edward K. Hall (1892–1893)
Louis Vail (1894)
George Huff (1895–1899)
Fred L. Smith (1900)
Edgar Holt (1901–1902)
George W. Woodruff (1903)
Arthur R. Hall, Justa Lindgren, Fred Lowenthal & Clyde Matthews (1904)
Fred Lowenthal (1905)
Justa Lindgren (1906)
Arthur R. Hall (1907–1912)
Robert Zuppke (1913–1941)
Ray Eliot (1942–1959)
Pete Elliott (1960–1966)
Jim Valek (1967–1970)
Bob Blackman (1971–1976)
Gary Moeller (1977–1979)
Mike White (1980–1987)
John Mackovic (1988–1991)
Lou Tepper (1991–1996)
Ron Turner (1997–2004)
Ron Zook (2005–2011)
Vic Koenning # (2011)
Tim Beckman (2012–2014)
Bill Cubit (2015)
Lovie Smith (2016–present)

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Illinois Fighting Illini head baseball coaches

No coach (1879–1881) No team (1882) No coach (1883–1891) Edward K. Hall (1892–1894) No coach (1895) George Huff (1896–1919) George Clark (1920) Carl Lundgren (1921–1934) Wally Roettger (1935–1951) Lee Eilbracht (1952–1978) Tom Dedin (1979–1987) Augie Garrido (1988–1990) Itch Jones (1990–2005) Dan Hartleb (2006– )

Illinois Fighting Illini athletic directors

Edward K. Hall (1892–1894)
Fred H. Dodge (1894–1895)
Henry H. Everett (1895–1898)
Jacob K. Shell (1898–1901)
George Huff (1901–1936)
Wendell S. Wilson (1936–1941)
Douglas R. Mills (1941–1966)
Leslie Bryan # (1966–1967)
Gene Vance (1967–1972)
Charles E. Flynn # (1972)
Cecil Coleman (1972–1979)
Ray Eliot # (1979)
Neale Stoner (1980–1988)
Ron Guenther # (1988)
John Mackovic (1988–1991)
Robert Todd # (1991–1992)
Ron Guenther (1992–2011)
Mike Thomas (2011–2015)
Paul Kowalczyk # (2015–2016)
Josh Whitman (2016– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim athletic director.

Boston Red Sox managers

Jimmy Collins (1901–1906)
Chick Stahl (1906)
Cy Young (1907)
Bob Unglaub (1907)
George Huff (1907)
Deacon McGuire (1907–1908)
Fred Lake (1908–1909)
Patsy Donovan (1910–1911)
Jake Stahl (1912–1913)
Bill Carrigan (1913–1916)
Jack Barry (1917)
Ed Barrow (1918–1920)
Hugh Duffy (1921–1922)
Frank Chance (1923)
Lee Fohl (1924–1926)
Bill Carrigan (1927–1929)
Heinie Wagner (1930)
Shano Collins (1931–1932)
Marty McManus (1932–1933)
Bucky Harris (1934)
Joe Cronin (1935–1947)
Joe McCarthy (1948–1950)
Steve O'Neill (1950–1951)
Lou Boudreau (1952–1954)
Pinky Higgins (1955–1959)
Rudy York (1959)
Billy Jurges (1959–1960)
Del Baker (1960)
Pinky Higgins (1960–1962)
Johnny Pesky (1963–1964)
Billy Herman (1964–1966)
Pete Runnels (1966)
Dick Williams (1967–1969)
Eddie Popowski (1969)
Eddie Kasko (1970–1973)
Eddie Popowski (1973)
Darrell Johnson (1974–1976)
Don Zimmer (1976–1980)
Johnny Pesky (1980)
Ralph Houk (1981–1984)
John McNamara (1985–1988)
Joe Morgan (1988–1991)
Butch Hobson (1992–1994)
Kevin Kennedy (1995–1996)
Jimy Williams (1997–2001)
Joe Kerrigan (2001)
Grady Little (2002–2003)
Terry Francona (2004–2011)
Bobby Valentine (2012)
John Farrell (2013–)
Torey Lovullo (2015)

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