Gee Mitchell

George "Gee" Mitchell (March 15, 1912 – October 27, 1984) was an American football and boxing coach. He served as the head football coach at the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) from 1947 to 1949 compiling career college football coaching record of 18–8–1.

A native of Rayville, Louisiana, Mitchell was a letterman while playing guard for LSU during their 1932 and 1933 seasons.[1] Mitchell was hired at Southwestern Louisiana in 1935 to serve as both head boxing coach and as line coach on the football team.[2] After leaving the program to serve in the Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945, Mitchell returned to Southwestern as athletic director in 1946 and then as head football coach from 1947 to 1949.[2] In 1950, Mitchell accepted a position at then Francis T. Nicholls Junior College (now known as Nicholls State University) to establish its athletics program.[3] He remained at Nicholls through 1973 when he retired as a full professor.[2]