George A. Stewart
{{Short description|American football coach}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = George A. Stewart
| image = George Andrew Stewart (1862–1894).png
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|9|26}}
| birth_place = South Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1894|6|21|1862|9|26}}
| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
| alma_mater = Harvard University
| coach_years1 = 1890–1893
| coach_team1 = Harvard
| overall_record = 46–3
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| championships = 1 national (1890)
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George Andrew Stewart (September 26, 1862 – June 21, 1894) was an American football coach. He served as the head coach of the Harvard University football team from 1890 to 1893. From 1890 to 1892, he co-coached with George C. Adams, and in 1893, with Everett J. Lake.
Born in 1862 in South Boston,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13ZNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22stewart,+George%22+AND+class+%221884%22+AND+%22harvard%22 |title=Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers - Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (U.S.) - Google Books |year=1894 |access-date=December 6, 2012}} Stewart attended grammar and Latin schools in Boston before entering Harvard in 1880, graduating in the class of 1884.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BhQZAQAAIAAJ&q=%22stewart%2C+George%22+AND+class+%221884%22+AND+%22harvard%22&pg=PA45 |title=General Catalogue Issue - Harvard University - Google Books |year=1883 |access-date=December 6, 2012}} After graduating, in 1886,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcoLAAAAIAAJ&q=%22One+of+Burgess'+young+student+assistants,+George+A.+Stewart,+became+yachting+editor+of+the+Globe+in+1886.****%22 |title=Newspaper story: one hundred years of the Boston globe - Louis Martin Lyons - Google Books |access-date=December 6, 2012|last1=Lyons |first1=Louis Martin |year=1971 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674622258 }} Stewart worked at the Boston Daily Globe, editing the yachting section. He was regarded as an authority on boating and yachts, and was a member of a yacht club and the Boston Athletic Association. He was regarded as a designer of boats.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1gjAQAAIAAJ&q=%22George+A.+Stewart%22+AND+%22+harvard%22+AND+%22football%22 |title=The Harvard Graduates' Magazine - William Roscoe Thayer, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Theodore Morrison - Google Books |access-date=December 6, 2012|last1=Castle Jr. |first1=William Richards |last2=Pier |first2=Arthur Stanwood |year=1895 }} In 1890, Stewart, along with another fellow alumnus, George Adams (1886) were appointed by team captain Arthur Cumnock{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pHE9AAAAYAAJ&q=%22George+stewart%22+AND+%22harvard%22+AND+%22adams%22 |title=The H book of Harvard athletics 1852-1922 - Google Books |access-date=December 6, 2012|last1=Blanchard |first1=John Adams |year=1923 }} as coaches for the Harvard football program. In their first season, the 1890 Harvard team went 11–0 had five players named to the 1890 College Football All-America Team.{{cite web |url=http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_National_Championships_Media_Center |title=Harvard : Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football - National Championships |publisher=Gocrimson.com |date= |access-date=December 6, 2012 |archive-date=April 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407030742/http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_National_Championships_Media_Center |url-status=dead }} The team was retroactively recognized as a national champion by a number of selectors. The appointment of Adams and Stewart is regarded to be the beginning of an organized coaching system at Harvard.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUM8AAAAMAAJ&q=%22George+stewart%22+AND+%22harvard%22+AND+%22adams%22 |title=Harvard Magazine - Google Books |year=1990 |access-date=December 6, 2012}}
Head coaching record
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| name = Harvard Crimson
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1890
| endyear = 1893
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1890
| name = Harvard
| overall = 11–0
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1891
| name = Harvard
| overall = 13–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1892
| name = Harvard
| overall = 10–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1893
| name = Harvard
| overall = 12–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Harvard
| overall = 46–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 46–3
| bowls = no
| poll = no
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References
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Category:Harvard Crimson football coaches
Category:Harvard University alumni