George Edmundson Pyle

George Edmundson Pyle (August 27, 1885 – August 23, 1949) was an American college football coach and college athletics administrator. He was the second head coach of the Florida Gators football team that represents the University of Florida. Pyle was the athletic director of West Virginia University from 1914 to 1917.

Early life Pyle was born on August 27, 1885, in Bristol, Tennessee.

Coaching career Pyle was director of physical culture of Transylvania University in 1904.

Pyle replaced Jack Forsythe as the Florida head football coach and held that position for five seasons, from 1909 to 1913. During that period, he accumulated a 26–7–3 record and a .764 winning percentage. In 1911, Pyle led Florida to its first and only undefeated season when the newly named Gators posted a 5–0–1 record.

In 1912, Florida posted a 5–2–1 record. On December 30, Florida played the Cuban Athletic Club of Havana under the "new rules". According to one source, the game's referee was a former coach for the Cuban team, and the officiating was blatantly biased. After two Florida touchdowns were nullified by questionable officiating, Pyle protested a fifteen-yard penalty. When the referee offered a five-yard penalty instead, Pyle and his team left the game in protest. Another source states that the game ended late in the first quarter after a fight broke out between the teams; Florida accused the Cuban team of still playing under "the old rules". After his trial was delayed, Pyle and the Gators left Cuba.

Pyle left the University of Florida after the 1913 season and became the athletic director for West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Pyle served one season, in 1930, as the head football coach at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

Late life and death After leaving college athletics, Pyle worked as an insurance agent in Bristol, Tennessee. He died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on August 23, 1949, at the age of 63.

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