Allen Gilbert

Personal details

birthday

1939

date of death

July 15, 2006

Place of death

los Angeles

nationality

Nickname (s)

Al

Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.

Medal table

US Championship

9 ×

8 ×

2 ×

Allen "Al" Gilbert (* 1939 ; † July 15, 2006 in Los Angeles , USA ) was an American three-cushion player , multiple US champion, author and billiards teacher.

Career

Gilbert, who lives in Los Angeles, was a nine-time US three-cushion champion, author of a billiard book about positional play in three-cushion (diamond system) and a respected billiard teacher. In 1999 he was named one of the 50 best US players of the 20th century by the Billiards Digest . Gilbert first took part in the three-cushion world championship in Düren in 1968 . Until 1988 he played a total of 11 world championships, where he achieved his best placement at the domestic World Cup in 1978 in Las Vegas with fifth place. At the first three-cushion World Cup in Paris in 1986, he won the bronze medal behind Belgian Raymond Ceulemans and Nobuaki Kobayashi from Japan.

Gilbert died after a long illness in July 2006 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Los Angeles.

successes

American three-cushion championship : 1968, 1970, 1971, 1977, 1988 1969, 1972, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993 • 1983, 1989
Three Cushion World Cup : 1986/1
Champ of Champions: 4 ×

Publications

Allen Gilbert: Systematic Billiards . 1977, p. 64 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bruce Warner: United States National 3-Cushion Billiard Champion Allen Gilbert, has died. A – Z Billiards, July 21, 2006, archived from the original on June 10, 2017 ; accessed on June 10, 2017 (English).
↑ Allen Gilbert (1939-2006). untold stories: billiards history, August 1, 2011, archived from the original on June 10, 2017 ; accessed on June 10, 2017 (English).
^ Billiards Digest 50 Greatest Players of the Century. AZ Billiards, archived from the original on June 10, 2017 ; accessed on June 10, 2017 (English).
↑ Game results. Kozoom , accessed June 10, 2017 .
^ Billiard Congress of America: Billiards - The Official Rules And Records Book . Lyons Press, An Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, Guilford, Connecticut 2005, ISBN 978-1-59228-744-4 , pp. 184 ( google.de ).
^ Sal Bello: USBA National Champions. United States Billiard Association (USBA), accessed June 10, 2017 .
^ Robert Byrne, Bob Jewett: Three-Cushion National Champions 1968–1988. USBA, October 6, 2012, accessed June 10, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gilbert, Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gilbert, Al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American billiards player, multiple US champion, author and billiards teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1939
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 2006
Place of death	Los Angeles , USA

[Todesnachricht-1] Bruce Warner: United States National 3-Cushion Billiard Champion Allen Gilbert, has died. A – Z Billiards, July 21, 2006, archived from the original on June 10, 2017 ; accessed on June 10, 2017 (English).

[untold_stories-2] Allen Gilbert (1939-2006). untold stories: billiards history, August 1, 2011, archived from the original on June 10, 2017 ; accessed on June 10, 2017 (English).

[Billiards_Digest-3] Billiards Digest 50 Greatest Players of the Century. AZ Billiards, archived from the original on June 10, 2017 ; accessed on June 10, 2017 (English).

[Kozoom-4] Game results. Kozoom , accessed June 10, 2017 .

[Billiards-Record_Book-5] Billiard Congress of America: Billiards - The Official Rules And Records Book . Lyons Press, An Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, Guilford, Connecticut 2005, ISBN 978-1-59228-744-4 , pp. 184 ( google.de ).

[US-Champions-6] Sal Bello: USBA National Champions. United States Billiard Association (USBA), accessed June 10, 2017 .

[Three-Cushion_National_Champions-7] Robert Byrne, Bob Jewett: Three-Cushion National Champions 1968–1988. USBA, October 6, 2012, accessed June 10, 2017 .