Peter Newell

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Peter Newell

Peter F. "Pete" Newell (born August 3, 1915 in Vancouver , British Columbia , † November 17, 2008 in Rancho Santa Fe ) was an American basketball coach and official who at the 1960 Summer Olympics with the national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal. Newell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame twice, both as a coach and as a member of that Olympic team.

Career

Between 1946 and 1960 he coached the teams of three universities: University of San Francisco (1946-50), Michigan State University (1950-54) and University of California, Berkeley (1954-60). With the University of San Francisco, Newell won the National Invitation Tournament in 1949 . He led the team of the University of California in 1959 and 1960 in the finals of the NCAA championship , with 1959 also winning the title. In 1960 Newell coached the US national team at the Olympic Games in Rome (with players like Oscar Robertson and Jerry West ), which won gold with ease. Pete Newell is one of only three basketball coaches to have won titles in each of the three aforementioned tournaments.

After his coaching career, with a record 234-123, Newell was named "Athletic Director" at Cal-Berkley. From 1968 to 1972 he was General Manager of the Houston Rockets , from 1972 to 1976 GM of the Los Angeles Lakers . He then was a talent scout with the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers . He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 30, 1979 and posthumously inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame on September 22, 2009 . In 2010, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for the second time as head coach of the 1960 US Olympic team.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pete Newell, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame At: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017 (in English).
personal data
SURNAME Newell, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newell, Pete (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , British Columbia
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 2008
Place of death Rancho Santa Fe (California)