George E. Cooper

George E. Cooper

Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1919	Tempe Normal
1922–1927	Colorado State Teachers
Basketball
1917–1922	Tempe Normal
1922–1931	Colorado State Teachers
Baseball
1918–1922	Tempe Normal
1922–1926	Colorado State Teachers
1929	Colorado State Teachers
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1917–1922	Tempe Normal
Head coaching record
Overall	15–13–1 (football) 130–62 (basketball) 60–28–1 (baseball)

George E. Cooper was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, in 1919 and at Colorado State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Colorado, from 1922 to 1927, compiling a career college football record of 15–13–1. Cooper was also the head basketball coach at Tempe Normal from 1917 to 1922 and at Colorado State Teachers from 1922 to 1931, tallying a career college basketball mark of 130–62. In addition, he coached baseball at the two schools, at Tempe Normal from 1918 to 1922, and at Colorado State Teachers from 1922 to 1926 and again in 1929, amassing a career college baseball record of 60–28–1. Cooper played football at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Tempe Normal Owls (Independent) (1919)
1919	Tempe Normal	0–2
Tempe Normal:		0–2
Colorado State Teachers (Independent) (1922–1923)
1922	Colorado State Teachers	1–4–1
1923	Colorado State Teachers	2–3–1
1924	Colorado State Teachers	2–5
Colorado State Teachers (Rocky Mountain Conference) (1925–1927)
1925	Colorado State Teachers	2–6–1	0–6	12th
1926	Colorado State Teachers	6–4	3–3	T–6th
1927	Colorado State Teachers	2–7	1–6	12th
Colorado State Teachers:		15–29–3	4–15
Total:		15–31–3