Chick Evans (coach)

George G. "Chick" Evans (June 18, 1901 – November 23, 1976) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.

At Des Moines, Evans won 11 varsity letters and captained teams in four different sports directed by head coach Harry M. Bell.

Evans began his coaching career at Boone High School in Boone, Iowa, where he spent four years before moving to DeKalb High School in DeKalb, Illinois for one year before becoming head football coach and athletic director of what was then Northern Illinois State Teachers College in 1929.

[2] As athletic director and coach, Evans oversaw Northern's growth from a teacher's college to a major university.

He died on November 23, 1976, at Kearney-Mesa Convalesclent Hospital in San Diego, California after a short illness.