George Owen Redington (April 30, 1871 – April 17, 1958) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player, coach, and lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Syracuse University from 1895 to 1896, compiling a record of 11–5–4. Redington graduated from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

in 1895 and joined the law firm of Carter, Hughes & Dwight in New York, where he worked under

Charles Evans Hughes Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, politician and jurist who served as the 11th Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the ...

. He served as assistant corporation counsel of New York during the administration of

Fiorello H. La Guardia Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City fro ...

, Mayor of New York City. Redington was a veteran of the

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. He died at

Danbury Hospital Danbury Hospital is a 456-bed hospital in Danbury, Connecticut serving patients in Fairfield County, Connecticut, as well as Westchester County and Putnam County, New York. The hospital has 3,300 employees and is part of the Nuvance Health sys ...

in Danbury, Connecticut on April 17, 1958.

Head coaching record

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* 1871 births 1958 deaths 19th-century players of American football Syracuse Orange football coaches Syracuse Orange football players Yale Law School alumni American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Players of American football from New York City Players of American football from Syracuse, New York Lawyers from New York City {{1890s-collegefootball-coach-stub