George Crispin

Who was George Crispin?

George Adlai Crispin was the eighth head football coach for Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas and he held that position for two seasons, from 1912 until 1913. His overall coaching record at ESU was 9 wins, 9 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 12th at ESU in terms of total wins and ninth at ESU in terms of winning percentage. Crispin came to Kansas State Normal in 1912 originally as an athletic instructor but was later given football coaching duties when previous coach Fred Honhart resigned to go pursue studies in medicine. Crispin had prior experience in football coaching as an assistant coach at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. He resigned the coaching job in 1914 after a proposed pay cut was but forward by the university's board.

On November 27, 1914, Crispin married Daisy Burlingame, who had formerly also worked at Kansas Normal, in Erie, Kansas. He had been working as an athletics supervisor with public schools in Madison, Wisconsin at the time where he also resided. He later moved to Colorado where he lived until his death in Denver in 1962.