John F. McGough was an American football

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 player and coach of football, basketball

Basketball

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, and baseball

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. He served as the head football coach at Gonzaga University

Gonzaga University

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 in 1916 and at the University of New Mexico

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 in 1919, compiling a career college football

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 record of 6–2–2. McGough was also the head basketball coach at Gonzaga during the 1916–17 season and at New Mexico during the 1919–20 season, amassing a career college basketball

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record of 6–9. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at New Mexico from 1919 to 1920, tallying a mark of 6–5.

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