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George E. Allen (coach)
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For the college football coach at Cumberland University of the same name, see George E. Allen. For the professional coach, see George Allen. George E. Eck Allen was an American football player and coach of football and basketball and he served as the head football coach at the University of Maine in 1941 and from 1946 to 1948, tallying a mark of 15–11–2. Allen was also the basketball coach at Brown University from 1938 to 1941 and at Maine from 1945 to 1949. Allen was born in Oldtown, Kentucky and attended school in Ashland. He played football at the West Virginia University from 1932 to 1934, after retiring from coaching, Allen worked as a salesman of materials used in steel production. He died on September 2,1997 at the age of 85 after a long illness and he was a resident of Kissimmee, Florida at the time of his death. List of college football coaches with non-consecutive tenure George E. Allen at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Phog Allen
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Forrest Clare Phog Allen was an American basketball and baseball player, coach of American football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, and osteopathic physician. In his 39 seasons at the helm of the Kansas Jayhawks mens basketball program, his teams won 24 conference championships, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively recognized Allens 1921–22 and 1922–23 Kansas teams as national champions. Allens 1951–52 squad won the 1952 NCAA Tournament and his Jayhawks were runners-up in the NCAA Tournament in 1940 and 1953 and his 590 wins are the most of any coach in the storied history of the Kansas basketball program. Allen attended the University of Kansas, having acquired the nickname Phog for the distinctive foghorn voice he had as a baseball umpire. He lettered in baseball and basketball, the latter under James Naismith, Allen served as the head football coach at Warrensburg Teachers College from 1912 to 1917 and at Kansas for one season in 1920, amassing a career college football record of 34–19–3. He also coached baseball at Kansas for two seasons, in 1941 and 1942, tallying a mark of 6–17–1, and was the athletic director from 1919 to 1937. Allen was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with the class of 1959. The home basketball arena at the University of Kansas, Allen Fieldhouse, was named in his honor when it opened in 1955, Allen was born in the town of Jamesport, Missouri. His father, William Allen, was among the 30 people who originally incorporated Jameson, Missouri in 1879, however, William Allen also had strong ties to Jamesport where he was town clerk, collector, and constable. Biographies of Allen usually refer to his birthplace as Jamesport and his family later moved to Independence, Missouri. Allen coached at William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri, the University of Kansas, Baker University, Haskell Institute, Allen began classes at the University of Kansas in 1904, where he lettered three years in basketball under James Naismiths coaching, and two years in baseball. In 1905 he also played for the Kansas City Athletic Club, at Kansas he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Allen launched his career at his alma mater in 1907. Allen was a legend in the field of treatment of athletic injuries and he also had a successful private osteopathic practice, and many he treated, the famous and otherwise, contend he had a magic touch for such ailments as bad backs, knees and ankles. He said he applied the same treatments to civilians as he did to his athletes and his forceful, yet reasonable, disposition helped him become the driving force behind basketball becoming accepted as an official sport in the Olympics in 1936. Allen later coached in the 1952 Summer Olympics, leading the United States to the medal in Helsinki. He coached college basketball for 50 seasons, and compiled a 746–264 record, during his tenure at Kansas, Allen coached Dutch Lonborg, Adolph Rupp, Ralph Miller and Dean Smith, all future Hall of Fame coaches. Among the Hall of Fame players he coached were Paul Endacott, Bill Johnson and he also recruited Wilt Chamberlain to Kansas, and even coached former United States Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole
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Mike Anderson (basketball)
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Michael Andre Mike Anderson is the current head basketball coach for the University of Arkansas. He served as a head coach under Nolan Richardson at Arkansas for 17 years. Over his 15 seasons as a coach, Anderson has compiled a 328-172 record, ten 20-win campaigns, eight NCAA Tournament appearances. Anderson is one of just 10 current Division I head coaches with 10+ years of experience, Anderson moved on to Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, where he was spotted by an opposing coach named Nolan Richardson. When Richardson was offered the job at the University of Tulsa. In Andersons two years with the Golden Hurricane he averaged 12 points a game, and the team won an NIT title, after graduating in 1982, Anderson went into substitute teaching while looking for a coaching job. Richardson brought him on to the University of Tulsas staff as a volunteer assistant, when Richardson moved on to the University of Arkansas, he brought Anderson along as an assistant for a 17-year stint, the last five as assistant head coach. When Richardson was fired, Anderson took over for the remainder of the 2001-02 season as head coach. In 2002, Anderson took over the program at UAB, which was coming off a 13-17 season and had only one NCAA appearance since 1995, Anderson quickly turned the program around, leading the team to 22 wins and a National Invitation Tournament Quarterfinals appearance. Anderson then led the Blazers to three appearances in the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament. In 2004, the Blazers advanced to the Sweet Sixteen by virtue of a 76-75 upset victory over the University of Kentucky, UAB ended the season ranked 23rd in the USA Today coaches poll. Anderson was named Conference USA Coach of the Year, and is the coach in UAB history to take the Blazers to the post season every year of his tenure. The First Two Seasons & Anderson was then hired in 2006 to take over the mess at the University of Missouri, rehabilitating a program that was under investigation under Quin Snyder. Andersons first team, a collection of transfers and raw talent, went 18-12 but missed out on post-season play after a loss to Baylor in the Big 12 Tournament. His 2007-08 campaign saw the inclusion of his nephew DeMarre Carroll, a transfer from Vanderbilt and that incident marked the second disciplinary issue of the season for Andersons team. Before the season, starting forward Kalen Grimes had been dismissed from the team after being arrested for hitting a man with the butt of a shotgun, the Tigers finished 16-16, losing in the Big 12 Tourney to Nebraska and missing out on post-season play. The Tigers season started off to a start with a 9-1 record including wins over USC and Cal. The Tigers finished their non conference schedule with a record of 13-2.3 seconds remaining, Mike Andersons 2008-09 Tiger team finished their last home game of the season by beating #5 Oklahoma on senior night
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Wayne D. Anderson
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Wayne Delbert Anderson was an American college basketball coach, the head coach at the University of Idaho for eight seasons. He was also the baseball coach at Idaho, his alma mater, for nine seasons. Born and raised in Spokane, Washington, Anderson graduated from Rogers High School in 1949 and he enrolled at the University of Idaho in Moscow,100 miles south, and was a two-sport athlete for the Vandals, then a member of the Pacific Coast Conference. Anderson was the quarterback and nationally-ranked punter on the football team. During his senior year, he was elected class president and he was a member of Delta Chi fraternity. Following graduation in 1953, Anderson coached a year in Roseburg, Oregon and he returned to the university in 1956 to run its intramural program and work on his masters degree. In the summer of 1957, he was promoted to assistant coach in basketball and football, the baseball team won the inaugural Big Sky title in 1964 and again in 1966, led by starting pitchers Bill Stoneman and Frank Reberger. One step from the College World Series in Omaha, the Vandals fell 3–2 and 8–5 to Arizona in Tucson in the District 7 finals, Idaho finished the season at 34-9 and Anderson was named Big Sky baseball coach of the year. That September, Anderson was promoted to coach in basketball. He had been an assistant for eight years to the four head coaches in basketball. In his second season in 1968, he was named coach of the year. In 1971, he took on duties as assistant athletic director. After his eighth season as head coach, Anderson resigned both positions in March 1974 and stopped coaching. He returned to the university in 1982 as the assistant athletic director, Anderson is a member of the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame and the University of Idahos Athletic Hall of Fame. Anderson died at age 82 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston on January 16,2013, Go Vandals. com - Idaho athletics - Wayne Anderson Go Vandals. com - athletics - Hall of Fame - Wayne Anderson Wayne D. Anderson at Find a Grave
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Gib Arnold
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Gibson Kirk Arnold is an American college basketball player and coach. He currently works in the NBA in the front office of the Boston Celtics, Arnold was born in 1968, when his father Frank Arnold was an assistant coach at the University of Oregon. As Frank Arnold later became an assistant at UCLA and was coach at BYU and Hawaii, Gib Arnold grew up in the Los Angeles, Provo, Utah. Arnold graduated from Punahou School in 1987, where he was a prep All-American, initially committed to Hawaii, Arnold first attended Arizona State University instead to follow his father, who became assistant coach for the Arizona State Sun Devils. An honor student as a freshman, Arnold left Arizona State to go on a two-year LDS mission to Munich, in 1990, Arnold enrolled in Dixie State College, a junior college in St. George, Utah and played his first year of college basketball there. Arnold transferred to UC San Diego in 1991, averaging 3.6 points in 20 games as a sophomore, retiring from basketball, Arnold transferred to Brigham Young University and graduated in 1994 with a bachelors degree in business administration. Arnold began his career as an assistant coach at Provo High School in 1994. In the 1995–96 season, Arnold moved up to the college level as assistant coach at Utah Valley State College. The following season, Arnold got his first NCAA Division I coaching job as assistant coach at Loyola Marymount, in the 1998–99 season, Arnold was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt under Jan van Breda Kolff. In 1999, Arnold followed van Breda Kolff to Pepperdine and remained on staff under Paul Westphal from 2001 to 2003, at Pepperdine, Arnold specialized in coaching defense and recruiting. From 2003 to 2005, Arnold served as the coach at the College of Southern Idaho. On April 6,2005, Arnold became an assistant coach at USC under Tim Floyd and remained for the 2009–10 season under new head coach Kevin ONeill. At USC, Arnold was named as one of the top 25 recruiters in the country by Rivals. com, among players he coached at USC included first-round NBA draft picks DeMar DeRozan, Taj Gibson, OJ Mayo, and Nikola Vucevic. On March 20,2010, the University of Hawaii at Manoa named Arnold the 19th head coach of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball, having inherited a program that had three straight losing seasons, Arnold led Hawaii to a 19–13 record and CIT appearance in his first season. Hawaii made the 2013 CIT and had its best record under Arnold at 20–11 in 2013–14, Arnold was the quickest Coach Hawaii history to reach 50 wins. Hawaii players restrained the fan, who was later arrested, on October 28,2014, Hawaii relieved Arnold without cause and assistant coach Bradyn Akana of their duties during the initial stages of an NCAA investigation. Assistant Coach Brandyn Akana was found to have altered an I20 Student Visa form, the NCAA investigation showed that Arnold had no knowledge of the violations. The NCAA determined that back up center and Hawaii Scholar Athlete of the Year Davis Rozitis borrowed a car of an acquaintance to move his belongings into his dorm, NCAA records show that Rozitis borrowed the car from the boosters girlfriend as the booster was on the mainland
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James N. Ashmore
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James Newton Ashmore was an American football, basketball and baseball coach. In addition, he was the baseball coach at Washington Agricultural, Millikin, Colorado, Iowa, DePauw. Ashmore was the head coach for the Washington State Cougars football team. His coaching record at Washington State was 3–3–2, Ashmore was the head coach at Western Maryland for the 1907 and 1908 seasons. While there, he compiled a 9–8–3 record, James N. Ashmore at the College Football Data Warehouse James N. Ashmore as College Basketball at Sports Reference. com
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James A. Baldwin
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James Jim Baldwin was an American football player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. Baldwin was also the basketball coach at the same five schools. In addition he served as the baseball coach at Rhode Island State and at Lehigh. From 1916 to 1920, Baldwin was the director at Rhode Island while he coached three sports. Baldwin died on August 2,1964 at a home in Hyannis. Maine Football Coach Has 13 Months Experience as Director in France in his Training, The Lewiston Daily Sun James A. Baldwin at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Tommy Bartlett (basketball)
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Thomas George Tommy Bartlett was an American college basketball and tennis player, as well as a college basketball and tennis head coach. Bartlett was born in Homerville, Georgia and graduated from Knoxville High School in Knoxville and he attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he played for the Tennessee Volunteers basketball team from 1949 to 1952 and the Volunteers mens tennis team from 1950 to 1952. As a senior, Bartlett and was also the college basketball player in the percentage of foul shots completed. He graduated from Tennessee in 1952, Bartlett began his coaching career at Lenoir City High School in Lenoir City, Tennessee in 1953. He subsequently served as the basketball coach for Carson-Newman College in 1957–1958. In 1962, he returned to his alma mater, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, in 1963, while continuing as a Volunteers basketball assistant, he also became the head coach of the Volunteers mens tennis team. In 1966, he led the Vols tennis team to their second SEC tennis team championship, in 1966, Bartlett began a seven-year tenure at Florida after Norm Sloan left for North Carolina State. Unlike Sloan, Bartlett emphasized defense from the start, Bartletts first Gators squad, including Gary Keller and Neal Walk, was the best Florida had produced until that time, they finished 21–4 overall, and 14–4 in the SEC. It was also the first Gators basketball squad to ever be ranked in the national polls, although Bartletts 1968–1969 Gators received an invitation to the 1969 National Invitation Tournament, none of his subsequent Gators teams equaled the success of his first. He was also responsible for recruiting Floridas first African-American player, Steve Williams and he finished with an overall win-loss record of 95–85 and 62–64 in the SEC. Bartlett returned to coaching in 1979, serving as the mens and womens tennis head coach for the Chattanooga Mocs for twelve seasons until 1990. Bartlett was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1986 and he died on October 19,2016 at his home in Chattanooga
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Gene Bartow
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Bobby Gene Bartow was an American mens college basketball coach. The Browning, Missouri, native coached 36 years at six universities after coaching two high schools in Missouri for six years, in 1972 Bartow coached the Puerto Rico national basketball team in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Bartow began his coaching at the level in Missouri, coaching Shelbina. His 1957 St. Charles team won the championship, defeating North Kansas City in the Class L finals by a score of 60–54. He coached the US national team in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, Bartow signed a five-year contract to replace Harv Schmidt at the University of Illinois in 1974. A last-place team the previous campaign, the Fighting Illini finished tied for ninth in the Big Ten at 8–18 in 1975, despite this, he was the first Illini coach to extensively recruit talented African American high school players from the Chicago area. He was succeeded by Lou Henson, Bartow left his position to succeed John Wooden as the head coach of UCLA. Bartow coached at UCLA from 1975 to 1977, guiding them to a 52–9 record and he coached the 1977 College Player of the Year, Marques Johnson. As of 2008, he is the second winningest coach at UCLA by percentage of wins to losses at.852, putting him behind Gary Cunningham at.862 and above John Wooden at.808. Bartow left UCLA after the 1977 season to take over the job of creating a program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He served as the schools first head coach and athletic director for 18 years. Bartow retired from coaching in 1996, and in 1997, UAB renamed its basketball venue, Bartow Arena, in his honor. His son Murry, a UAB assistant, became the coach upon Bartows retirement, Bartow was later president of Hoops, LP, the company runs the Memphis Grizzlies. On April 15,2009, a UAB spokesman revealed that Bartow had been diagnosed with stomach cancer, on January 3,2012, Gene Bartow died at his home in Birmingham after a two-year battle with the disease. In 1989, Bartow was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame,10 years later, in 1999, Bartow was also voted one of Valparaiso Universitys 150 most influential people in October 2009. In 2013, Bartow was selected for induction into the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Hall of Fame, list of college mens basketball coaches with 600 wins
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Murry Bartow
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Murry Linn Bartow is an American college basketball coach. He was most recently the head coach at University of South Florida. At UAB, he compiled a 103–83 record, that included 48 conference wins, bartows first season at ETSU brought division and conference regular season titles and the Southern Conference Tournament championship. The team finished 27–6 and ended their season in an 80–77 NCAA tournament opening round loss to the University of Cincinnati, Bartow was named the SoCon Coach of the Year. Bartow led the Buccaneers to the regular season Atlantic Sun title in 2006–07 with a 24–10 overall record, Bartow was named Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year. NCAA tournament appearances earned by automatic bid for winning A-Sun Conference Tournament championship followed the 2008-09, overall, Bartow led the Bucs to three NCAA appearances in his tenure at ETSU. After a change in the president and AD, and even with a winning record. Bartow was hired as an assistant coach at USF in August 2016 and he was named interim head coach on January 3,2017 following the firing of head coach Orlando Antigua. Born in Warrensburg, Missouri, Bartow holds a BA from UAB and a masters degree from Indiana University
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Duggar Baucom
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Robert Franklin Duggar Baucom is an American college basketball coach and the current head mens basketball coach at The Citadel. Baucom was hired as the Citadels head coach following the 2014–15 season and he was previously the head coach at NCAA Division I Virginia Military Institute. Hes also served a coach at Tusculum, Davidson, Western Carolina, at the conclusion of the 2016–17 season, Baucoms career record is 173–203 in Division I and 37–19 in Division II. Baucom was born on September 21,1960, and grew up around Charlotte and he attended North Mecklenburg High School in Huntersville where he played basketball. Following graduation, Baucom took a career in law enforcement and worked as a policeman and he was initially assigned to North Mecklenburg as a school resource officer in 1987, and also coached the schools junior varsity basketball team. After four years, he was promoted to varsity head coach, Baucoms career in law-enforcement was short-lived. On Christmas Day of 1990, Baucom had an attack, which was discovered to be a case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Narrowly avoiding death, Baucom was forced to pursue a low-stress occupation and he enrolled at UNC Charlotte where he earned a B. A. in history and graduated in 1995. Following his time at North Mecklenburg, Baucom first joined the ranks in 1995 as an assistant to the Davidson Wildcats. In his lone year at Davidson, the Wildcats went 25–5, 14–0 in the Southern Conference, Baucom then returned to the Southern Conference where he worked three seasons under head coach Steve Shurina at Western Carolina. His first head coaching job came in 2003 when he was hired by Tusculum College in the Tennessee town of the same name. Baucom immediately made an impression, his first year in 2003–04, for this, Baucom was named the SAC Coach of the Year. The next season produced similar results, and Tusculum advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. The team led their conference in scoring, field goal percentage, free-throw percentage, three-pointers made per game, Baucom was then hired in the summer of 2005 by the Virginia Military Institute and athletic director Donny White. The first VMI team under Baucom performed poorly, the Keydets went 7–20 and 2–14 in the Big South Conference, failing to qualify for the league tournament. It was ultimately replaced with a defibrillator, but Baucom would end up missing twelve games on the season during four months of procedures, shortly before the start of the 2006–07 season, the teams troubles continued. Two players were guilty of committing honor violations and promptly expelled from the school. To counter this, Baucom installed a fast-pace, high-scoring offense that was a mixture of the 1980s Loyola Marymount teams and Grinnell College, among others
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John Beilein
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John Patrick Beilein is an American college basketball coach and current mens basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines, the 2016–17 season is his tenth at Michigan. Beilein has won 691 career games at four-year universities and 766 games altogether and he has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers, Richmond Spiders, Canisius College Golden Griffins in Division I as well as Le Moyne College, Nazareth College and Erie Community College. Beilein is the only active coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different levels—junior college, NCAA Division III, NCAA Division II. Beilein is one of six active Division I coaches with 700 or more career wins. He has been recognized as conference coach of the five times, in 1981 at Erie Community College, in 1988 at LeMoyne, in 1994 at Canisius, in 1998 at Richmond. In addition, Beilein was the seventh of ten coaches to have taken four different schools to the NCAA Division I Tournament. Beileins first Division I head coaching position was at Canisius, a school of which he had been a fan. He turned around the schools losing program and helped it earn two National Invitation Tournament and one NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship Tournament invitation in five years, then at Richmond he reached the NIT twice in five years. In five years at West Virginia, his teams twice advanced several rounds in the NCAA tournament and twice went to the NIT, at Michigan, the school reached the NCAA tournament for the first time in over a decade and five times in his first seven seasons as coach. He has a 19–11 record in the NCAA tournament, with one Final Four appearance, Beilein was raised in Burt, New York. He is the eighth of nine children of a millworker and an apple farmer and his mothers cousins were the inspiration for Saving Private Ryan, and two of his uncles were lifelong basketball coaches in the Western New York area. Beilein attended DeSales High School in Lockport, New York and he went on to attend Wheeling College where he competed on the schools basketball team from 1971 to 1975 and served as team captain during the 1974–75 season. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1975, after graduating, Beilein returned to Western New York where he began his coaching career at Newfane High School in 1975. He remained there for three years, Beilein went on to earn a Master of Science degree in education from Niagara University in 1981. Beilein has never served as an assistant coach, he has held head-coaching positions throughout his career, Le Moyne was a Division II contestant in the Mideast Collegiate Conference. Beilein first applied to coach Division I basketball at Canisius in 1987, during his time at Le Moyne, he held annual coaching clinics that welcomed coaches and athletes. Beilein was named the 1988 MCC Coach of the Year, when his team finished as Co-League Champions with a 21–5 regular season record, the team tied with Gannon University with an 8–2 conference record
