George E. Allen (coach)

For the college football coach at Cumberland University of the same name, see George E. Allen. For the professional football coach, see George Allen (American football coach).

George E. Allen
Biographical details
Allen pictured in The Prism 1943, Maine yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1911-12-31)December 31, 1911 Oldtown, Kentucky
Died	September 2, 1997(1997-09-02) (aged 85)
Playing career
Football
1932–1934	West Virginia
Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1937–1940	Brown (backfield)
1941	Maine
1946–1948	Maine
1949–c. 1954	Fordham (backfield)
Basketball
1938–1941	Brown
1945–1949	Maine
Head coaching record
Overall	15–11–2 (football) 73–53 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1947)

George E. "Eck" Allen (December 31, 1911 – September 2, 1997) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Maine in 1941 and from 1946 to 1948, tallying a mark of 15–11–2. Allen was also the head basketball coach at Brown University from 1938 to 1941 and at Maine from 1945 to 1949, compiling a career college basketball record of 73–53.

Early life and playing career

Allen was born in Oldtown, Kentucky and attended high school in Ashland. He played football at the West Virginia University from 1932 to 1934.^[1]

Later life and death

After retiring from coaching, Allen worked as a salesman of materials used in steel production. He died on September 2, 1997 at the age of 85 after a long illness. He was a resident of Kissimmee, Florida at the time of his death.^[2]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Standing
Maine Black Bears (Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1941)
1941	Maine	3–2–2
Maine Black Bears (Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1946–1948)
1946	Maine	2–5
1947	Maine	6–1	1st
1948	Maine	4–3
Maine:		15–11–2
Total:		15–11–2
National championship Conference title Conference division title

Basketball

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Brown Bears (Independent) (1938–1941)
1938–39	Brown	16–4			NCAA Elite Eight
1939–40	Brown	13–6
1940–41	Brown	10–10
Brown:		39–20 (.661)
Maine Black Bears (Yankee Conference) (1945–1947)
1945–46	Maine	10–4	4–4	3rd
1946–47	Maine	9–8	2–4	4th
1947–48	Maine	11–7
1948–49	Maine	4–14
Maine:		34–33 (.507)	6–8 (.429)
Total:		73–53 (.579)

References

↑ "MAINE PICKS ALLEN AS FOOTBALL HEAD; McLaughry's Aide at Brown Succeeds Brice -- Starred at West Virginia". The New York Times. January 23, 1941. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
↑ "ALLEN". Osceola News-Gazette. September 1997. Retrieved October 23, 2011.

External links

George E. Allen at the College Football Data Warehouse

Brown Bears men's basketball head coaches

Ed Benjamin (1900–1901)
Charles Ray (1901–1902)
Paul DeWolf (1902–1903)
Henry Ahrens (1903–1904)
Paul DeWolf (1904–1905)
Oscar Rackle (1905–1906)
W. W. Reynolds (1906–1907)
J. Donald Pryor (1907–1909)
Walter White (1909–1910)
J. Russell McKay (1910–1912)
No team (1912–1918)
Louis Pieri (1918–1919)
Ed Freeman (1919–1920)
Florence Harvey (1920–1921)
Walter Snell (1921–1923)
Harold Evans (1923–1926)
Tuss McLaughry (1926–1929)
Rufus Bond (1929–1931)
Art Kahler (1931–1938)
George E. Allen (1938–1941)
Tippy Dye (1941–1942)
Rip Engle (1942–1946)
Weeb Ewbank (1946–1947)
Robert Morris (1947–1954)
L. Stanley Ward (1954–1969)
J. Gerald Alaimo (1969–1978)
Joe Mullaney (1978–1981)
Mike Cingiser (1981–1991)
Frank Dobbs (1991–1999)
Glen Miller (1999–2006)
Craig Robinson (2006–2008)
Jesse Agel (2008–2012)
Mike Martin (2012– )

Maine Black Bears head football coaches

Chesley Johnston (1892)
Wildes Veazie (1893)
No coach (1894)
P. Folsom (1895)
Jack Abbott (1896)
Harry Orman Robinson (1897)
James Coombs (1898)
W. B. Hopkins (1899)
Ernest Burton (1900)
John Wells Farley (1901)
Eddie N. Robinson (1902)
John Wells Farley (1903)
Emmett O. King (1904)
Frank McCoy (1905–1908)
George Schildmiller (1909)
Edgar Wingard (1910–1911)
Thomas J. Riley (1912–1913)
Eddie Cochems (1914)
Tommy Hughitt (1915–1916)
Thomas A. McCann (1917)
Donald R. Aldworth (1918)
James A. Baldwin (1919–1920)
Fred Brice (1921–1940)
George E. Allen (1941)
William C. Kenyon (1942)
Samuel Sezak (1943)
William C. Kenyon (1944–1945)
George E. Allen (1946–1948)
David M. Nelson (1949–1950)
Harold Westerman (1951–1966)
Walter Abbott (1967–1975)
Jack Bicknell (1976–1980)
Ron Rogerson (1981–1984)
Buddy Teevens (1985–1986)
Tim Murphy (1987–1988)
Tom Lichtenberg (1989)
Kirk Ferentz (1990–1992)
Jack Cosgrove (1993–2015)
Joe Harasymiak (2016– )

Maine Black Bears men's basketball head coaches

George Huntington (1904–1905)
George Owen (1905–1906)
John Phelan (1906–1908)
John Neary (1908–1910)
No team (1910–1920)
James A. Baldwin (1920–1921)
Howard Flack (1921–1923)
Joseph T. Murphy (1923–1925)
Fred Brice (1925–1929)
No team (1929–1935)
William C. Kenyon (1935–1942)
Samuel Sezak (1942–1944)
William C. Kenyon (1944–1945)
George E. Allen (1945–1949)
Rome Rankin (1949–1954)
Russell DeVette (1954–1955)
Harold Woodbury (1955–1958)
Brian McCall (1958–1968)
Gil Philbrick (1968–1971)
Skip Chappelle (1971–1988)
Rudy Keeling (1988–1996)
John Giannini (1996–2004)
Ted Woodward (2004–2014)
Bob Walsh (2014– )

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