George R. Edwards
(1890-1972)
American football and basketball coach
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George R. Edwards (1890 – June 10, 1972) was an American football, basketball, and golf coach and college athletics administrator. He was the fourth head football coach at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas, serving for two seasons, in 1914 and again in 1917, and compiling a record of 4–11. He was the head basketball coach at the University of Missouri from 1926 to 1946. He coached Missouri to a 181–172 record, winning three Big Six Conference championships and one NCAA tournament appearance. He also served as Missouri's athletic director from 1943 to 1945. Edwards grew up in Palmyra, Missouri. He died on June 10, 1972, at the age of 81, Columbia, Missouri. He was inducted into the Missouri Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991.
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