Blaine McKusick

{{Short description|American football and basketball coach (1888–1960)}}

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| name = Blaine McKusick

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|2|23}}

| birth_place = Calais, Maine, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|8|8|1888|2|23}}

| death_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.

| alma_mater = South Dakota (JD, 1913)

| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1907–1908

| player_team2 = Bowdoin

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1915

| coach_team2 = South Dakota (assistant)

| coach_years3 = 1916–1917

| coach_team3 = South Dakota

| coach_years4 = 1919

| coach_team4 = Missouri Military Academy (MO)

| coach_sport5 = Basketball

| coach_years6 = 1915–1916

| coach_team6 = South Dakota (assistant)

| coach_years7 = 1916–1917

| coach_team7 = South Dakota

| overall_record = 3–8–2 (college football)
8–1 (college basketball)

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James Gilespie Blaine McKusick (February 23, 1888 – August 8, 1960) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as both the head football coach and head basketball coach at the University of South Dakota from 1916 to 1917.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0JHAQAAMAAJ|title=Catalog: Undergraduate Programs|year=1917|publisher=University of South Dakota|access-date=December 6, 2018}}

McKusick attended Bowdoin College in Maine before becoming a student at the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1911.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCpJAQAAMAAJ|title=General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine|year=1916|publisher=Bowdoin College|access-date=December 6, 2018}} He also served as the head football coach at Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Missouri in 1920.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/officialnational07nation/officialnational07nation_djvu.txt|title=1920 NCAA Guide|publisher=NCAA|access-date=December 25, 2018}}