Everett Case

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Everett Norris Case (* 21st June 1900 in Anderson , Indiana ; † thirtieth April 1966 in Raleigh , North Carolina at the age of 65 years and 313 days) was an American Basketball - Coach .

biography

Case decided very early on to pursue a career as a coach. He began coaching high school in Frankfort , Indiana at the age of 18 , five years before graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison . Between 1925 and 1939 he won four Indiana State Championships with his school , which only four other coaches managed. From this time also the tradition of stirring Netzabschneidens ( cutting down the nets ) to go back to Case. The school gymnasium was later named Case Arena in his honor.

In 1941, Case enlisted in the Navy as a Senior-Grade Lieutenant (comparable to the Army Rank of a Captain). After four weeks of training in Annapolis and five weeks in Chicago, he was transferred to the Naval Pre-Flight School of St. Mary's College , California . He was basketball and sports director for St. Mary's Pre-Flight and the Alameda Naval Air Station . From St. Mary's service Basketball 1942-43 ten wins and five defeats have come down in the season. After two years he went to the Midwest to serve at DePauw University with the rank of lieutenant commander (comparable to a major) as the sports director of the Naval Flight Preparatory School . Basketball was an important factor in the US Navy's V5, V7, and V12 programs , which Case oversaw in the sports field, with instructions progressing in complexity corresponding to aeronautical training. The DePauw Naval Pre-Flight in Greencastle , Indiana recorded 18 victories in six defeats in 1943/44.

After the war, Case moved to Raleigh and took on the North Carolina State - NCAA - college basketball program. He promoted the construction of the Reynolds Coliseum and broke the dominance of college football in North Carolina. In 18 seasons, Case was able to show a record of 377-134 wins and seven wins at the Dixie Classic tournament in addition to numerous conference titles . Marked by cancer, Case had to resign after two games in his final season. His successor on the sidelines was Press Maravich , father of Pete . Case died in 1966, but still saw the conference title as a spectator.

In 1982 Everett Case was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame , and in 2006 , when she was founded, was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.

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  1. ↑ Douglas Stark: Wartime Basketball. The Emergence of a National Sport during World War II. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London 2016. ISBN 978-0-8032-4528-0 (page 148 ff, in English).
personal data
SURNAME Case, Everett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Case, Everett Norris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Anderson, Indiana
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1966
Place of death Raleigh , North Carolina