Facts: - sport: football , baseball - death place: champaign , illinois - player team: illinois dartmouth illinois dartmouth - player sport: football baseball - caption: huff association football guide , 1899 '' pictured in '' the official national collegiate athletic - death date: 1 october 1936 - coach team: illinois illinois boston americans - player years: 1890 & ndash ; 1891 , 1893 1894 , 1892 1893 & ndash ; 1894 1889 - coach years: 1895 1919 1907 & ndash ; 1899 1896 & ndash ; - birth date: 11 june 1872 - coach sport: football baseball - name: george huff - overall record: 21 -lrb- football -rrb- 317 & ndash ; 97 & ndash & ; 4 -lrb- college baseball -rrb- 2 & ndash ; ndash 6 -lrb- mlb -rrb- ; 16 & ndash ; 3 - cfbdwid: 1133 - image: huffgajr.png - birth place: champaign , illinois - championships: baseball ndash ; 1904 , 1906 & ndash ; 1908 , 11 1910 & ndash ; 1911 , 1914 & ndash ; big 1916 -rrb- ten -lrb- 1900 , 1903 & Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george huff -lrb- coach -rrb- .
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george a. huff , jr. -lrb- june 11 , 1872 -- october 1 , 1936 -rrb- was an american football and baseball player , coach , and college athletics administrator .huff served as the head football coach at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign from 1895 to 1899 , compiling a record of 21 -- 16 -- 3 .he was also the head baseball coach at illinois from 1896 to 1919 , tallying a mark of 317 -- 97 -- 4 , and the athletic director at illinois from 1901 to 1935 .huff hall at the university of illinois in champaign is named in his honor .huff was briefly a manager for the boston americans at the start of the 1907 major league baseball season following the sudden suicide of chick stahl .cy young started out as the player/manager , but after six games stepped down in favor of huff .huff managed only eight games , finishing with a career 2 -- 6 managerial record , before resigning on may 1 , 1907 to return to his old job .bob unglaub replaced him .the americans had a total of four managers in the 1907 season .the team was renamed as the boston red sox the following season .