George White (football coach)

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George White (born January 16, 1936 in Glasgow (Montana) , † September 20, 1996 in Hamburg ) was an American American football coach.

career

White graduated from school in 1958 and then studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles  (US state of California ). From 1961 he worked as a teacher and coached the football team at Balboa High School in San Francisco before moving to Galileo High School, where he worked for 20 years as a teacher and football coach and led his team to twelve titles. In 1988 White was named to the California Football Coach Hall of Fame. In 1995, the Galileo High School football field was named after him.

In 1992, White took over the post of head coach at the Hamburg Blue Devils and initially looked after them until 1994. During the 1995 season he stayed in the United States again, after retiring as a teacher he returned to the Hamburg team for the 1996 season and took up a second term as head coach . In early July 1996, White led the devils with a 21:14 victory over Aix-en-Provence to win the Eurobowl . White, who was described as the father figure of the Blue Devils, suffered a heart attack and died shortly before a semi-final game against Braunschweig during a team evening on a Hamburg kart track. He left behind his wife and three children. Around two weeks after White's death, the devils became German champions in front of 19,700 spectators in the Volksparkstadion with a 31:12 win over Düsseldorf .

White's son Ben also became a football coach in California.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1996/pdf/19960921.pdf/ASV_HAB_19960921_HA_023.pdf
  2. ^ Examiner Staff Report: Famed prep coach George White dies. September 21, 1996, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Ben White, son of iconic ex-Galileo coach George White, is the pick at Cap. Retrieved January 23, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ Edwin Feindt: Snowflakes and Rice Dishes . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 6, 1996, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 36 ( taz.de [accessed on January 23, 2020]).
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1996/pdf/19960708.pdf/ASV_HAB_19960708_HA_019.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1996/pdf/19960923.pdf/ASV_HAB_19960923_HA_018.pdf
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1996/pdf/19961007.pdf/ASV_HAB_19961007_HA_017.pdf
personal data
SURNAME White, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow (Montana)
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1996
Place of death Hamburg