John Wooden

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Basketball player
John Wooden
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Player information
Full name John Robert Wooden
birthday October 14, 1910
place of birth Martinsville , Indiana , United States
date of death June 4th 2010
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States
position Guard
High school Martinsville High School
college Purdue
Clubs as coaches
1946-1948 Indiana State 1948-1975 UCLAUnited StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States

John Robert Wooden (born October 14, 1910 in Martinsville , Indiana , † June 4, 2010 in Los Angeles ) was an American basketball player and coach. As the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles basketball team of the UCLA Bruins , he won ten NCAA Division I basketball championships , seven of them in a row from 1967 to 1973. He was by far the most successful coach in the history of the competition, no other coach can win more than five titles show. During his playing days he was nicknamed "Indiana Rubber Man", later he was called "Wizard of Westwood " in reference to the Wizard of Oz .

Career

As a player, Wooden was active in the position of guard for the Purdue University team , with whom he won the national college championship in 1932. In the National Basketball League he played for the Indianapolis Kautskys and the Hammond Ciesar All-Americans and coached high school teams in parallel . After World War II, in which he had served in the Navy , Wooden was a trainer for the team at Indiana State Teachers College , now Indiana State University . From 1948 to 1975 he was responsible for the basketball team at UCLA, where he looked after later NBA stars such as Gail Goodrich , Lew Alcindor alias Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton . Wooden celebrated his first National Collegiate Athletic Association title with the Bruins in 1964, and it was also his first of four seasons without a loss. He celebrated further title wins in 1965, 1967 to 1973 and 1975 at the end of his career. In the 1971/72 season, his team won by an average of over 30 points, between 1971 and 1974 they won 88 games in a row.

Coach behavior

Due to his extremely successful career as a coach, his coaching behavior was systematically observed in training and competition. Individual training took place daily from 3–3: 30 p.m., and team training from 3.30–5: 30 p.m. The typical behavioral sequence of Wooden was: interrupt the flow of the game - criticize - show wrong - show right - restart the flow of the game. Praise could not be observed. Wooden's teams were in better condition than any competition, so they were able to hold out a full court press over the entire season and so even physically superior teams could play standing knockout. Wooden also regularly prayed with his team in the dressing room before the games. John Wooden has drilled his teams more intensively than other coaches and only played relatively little. The Wooden Drills have become the basis of a German textbook.

Honors

Wooden received in 1972 the award for Sportsman of the Year of Sports Illustrated . He was the first person ever to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (1960) and coach (1973) . In 2003 Wooden was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom . As a token of appreciation, UCLA named a sports recreation center, the John Wooden Center , after him.

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : John Wooden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 99 things about John Wooden
  2. ^ John Wooden, Who Built Incomparable Dynasty at UCLA, Dies at 99
  3. ↑ a b c Thomas Käckenmeister: John Wooden. The Wizard of Westwood (June 5, 2010) ( September 4, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ John Wooden chronology ( June 9, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ) On: NBA website; New York City, NY. Retrieved June 6, 2010
  5. ↑ Ronald Gallimore & Roland Tharp: What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher, 1975-2004: Reflections and Reanalysis of John Wooden's Teaching Practices, in: The Sport Psychologist 18 (2004), 119-137.
  6. ^ John Wooden: Practical modern basketball . Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1980 (3rd ed.)
  7. ↑ Dieter Niedlich & Arnd Krüger : 200 new basketball drills . Schorndorf: Hofmann 2001 (4th edition)
personal data
SURNAME Wooden, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wooden, John Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Martinsville , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 2010
Place of death los Angeles