John Wooden
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican basketball coach (1910-2010)
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row.
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Wooden at Purdue
The plaque in the Dayton (KY) High School gymnasium
Wooden with assistant coach Bill Putnam and trainer Ducky Drake, c. 1958
Wooden in 1960
Wooden with Digger Phelps in 1973, after UCLA beat Notre Dame for their NCAA-record 61st straight win
John Wooden Recreation Centre on the campus of UCLA
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Pat SummittAlso won Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year
Red AuerbachAlso won John Bunn Award
Roger StaubachAlso won Theodore Roosevelt Award
Johann Olav KossAlso won Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year
Mary Lou RettonAlso won Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year
Billy MillsAlso won Theodore Roosevelt AwardAbout this person
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden won the prestigious Henry Iba Award as national coach of the year a record seven times and won the Associated Press award five times.
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