George Robert Cobb (August 26, 1885 â February 13, 1957) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State CollegeâÂÂnow known as the University of Rhode IslandâÂÂfrom 1909 to 1911 and again from 1913 to 1914, compiling a record of a 17âÂÂ16âÂÂ5. Cobb was also the head basketball coach at Rhode Island State from 1910 to 1913, tallying a mark of 13âÂÂ9, and the school's athletic director from 1909 to 1916. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1908. Cobb died on February 13, 1957, as Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury, Maryland.