George Michael Cassidy was an
American football
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and
basketball
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coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Colorado Agricultural College—now known as
Colorado State University
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—for one season, in 1910, compiling a record of 0–5. Cassidy was also the head basketball coach at Colorado Agricultural for the 1910–11 season, tallying a mark of 5–4. A native of
Poultney, Vermont
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, Cassidy attended the
University of Vermont
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and played on the football and
baseball
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teams there.
Head coaching record
Football
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