George Adlai Crispin (February 16, 1885 – April 16, 1962) was an
American football and
basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State Normal School—now known as
Emporia State University—for two seasons, from 1912 until 1913, compiling a record of 9–9. Crispin came to Kansas State Normal in 1912 originally as an athletic instructor but was later given football coaching duties when previous coach
Fred Honhart
Frederick L. Honhart (May 31, 1885 – May 2, 1983) was an American football and basketball coach. He was the seventh head football coach at Kansas State Normal School—now known as Emporia State University—in Emporia, Kansas
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resigned to go pursue studies in medicine. Crispin had prior experience in football coaching as an assistant coach at
Carlisle Indian Industrial School. He resigned the coaching job in 1914 after a proposed pay cut was put forward by the university's board.
On November 27, 1914, Crispin married Daisy Burlingame, who had also worked at Kansas State Normal, in the bursar's office in
Erie, Kansas
Erie is a city in and the county seat of Neosho County, Kansas, United States, and situated in the valley of the Neosho River, about a mile Northeast of the river. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,047.
History
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. He had been working as an athletics supervisor with public schools in
Madison, Wisconsin at the time where he also resided. He later moved to
Colorado where he lived until his death in Denver in 1962.
["George A. Crispin", ''Salina Journal'', April 23, 1962, Salina, Kansas]
Head coaching record
Football
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1885 births
1962 deaths
Carlisle Indians football coaches
Emporia State Hornets basketball coaches
Emporia State Hornets football coaches
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