George Harrison Schaeffer was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player, coach of football,

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, and

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, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, from 1914 to 1916, compiling a record of 7–8. Schaeffer was also the head basketball coach at Tempe Normal for the 1914–15 and 1916–17 seasons and the school's baseball coach from 1915 to 1917. He played football at

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, graduating in 1914, and also attended

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Head coaching record

Football

References

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