George Pfann

George R. Pfann (October 6, 1902 – December 17, 1996) was an American college football player and coach, decorated officer serving on George Patton's staff during World War II, and a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees. He played college football at the quarterback position for the Cornell Big Red football teams and was selected as an All-American in both 1922 and 1923. He also served as Swarthmore's head football coach from 1931 to 1935.

Early years Pfann was born in 1902 in Marion, Ohio.

Pfann was also a star player on Cornell's lacrosse team and played for the school's basketball team.

Pfann graduated from Cornell in 1924 and then enrolled in law school at Cornell. He served as an assistant football coach and freshman basketball coach while studying law at Cornell. He received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1926 and completed his legal studies at Brasenose College, Oxford.

During World War II, Pfann served in the U.S. Army and was secretary of General George S. Patton's Seventh Army and later Third Army general staff. He was promoted to the rank of major in July 1943 and to lieutenant colonel in December 1944.

After the war, Pfann returned to Ithaca where he worked on the legal staff of the Grange League Federation from 1945 to 1967. He was also inducted into Cornell's sports hall of fame in 1978 as a football and lacrosse player.

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