:George Serdula
{{Short description|American football player and coach (1920–2002)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = George Serdula
| image = George Serdula.png
| alt =
| caption = Serdula pictured in Orient 1954, Ball State yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|1|17}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|10|26|1920|1|17}}
| death_place = St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = c. 1940
| player_team1 = Muskingum
| coach_years1 = 1946–1947
| coach_team1 = Barnesville HS (OH)
| coach_years2 = 1948–1952
| coach_team2 = Ball State (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1953–1955
| coach_team3 = Ball State
| overall_record = 14–9–1 (college)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships =
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}}
George Serdula (January 17, 1920 – October 26, 2002) was an American football player, coach, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at Ball State Teachers College—now Ball State University—from 1953 to 1955, compiling a record of 14–9–1. Serdula played college football at Muskingum College, from which he graduated in 1942. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a flight engineer, and held the rank of first lieutenant. Serdula resigned at football coach at Ball State in March 1956 to complete a doctoral degree at Indiana University.{{cite news |title=Ball State Coach Resigns |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/03/21/84879065.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=United Press |date=March 21, 1956 |access-date=October 31, 2011}} He was later a professor of health sciences at St. Cloud State University. Serdula was inducted into the Muskingum Hall of Fame in 1993. He died on October 26, 2002, in St. Cloud, Minnesota.{{cite journal |date=Spring 2003 |title=Class Notes |journal=Muskingum: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends |volume=93 |issue=2 |page=24 |url=http://www.muskingum.edu/home/alumni/downloads/03aSprMag.pdf |access-date=October 31, 2011}}
Head coaching record
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Ball State Cardinals
| conf = Indiana Collegiate Conference
| startyear = 1953
| endyear = 1955
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Ball State
| overall = 5–2–1
| conference = 3–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1954
| name = Ball State
| overall = 6–2
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
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| bowloutcome =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1955
| name = Ball State
| overall = 3–5
| conference = 1–5
| confstanding = T–6th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Ball State Teachers
| overall = 14–9–1
| confrecord = 8–9
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 14–9–1
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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