Phil Woolpert

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Phil Woolpert (born December 15, 1915 in Danville , Kentucky , USA ; † May 7, 1987 in Sequim , Washington , USA) coached the basketball teams of the University of San Francisco and the University of San Diego .

biography

Phil Woolpert attended Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles when he was 15 . In 1933 he moved to Los Angeles Junior College . He stayed there for the next three years until he went to Loyola Marymount University and received his degree there.

Was in 1946 Phil Woolpert coach a basketball team in high school St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco , California . In his four years as a coach, he and his basketball team had a successful record of 63 wins and 23 losses.

Peter Newell , a former basketball coach and Hall of Famer, coached the basketball team at the University of San Francisco from 1946 to 1950 . When he won the National Invitation Tournament championships with the "Dons" in 1949 , he handed over his position as coach and athletic director to Phil Woolpert. Both were classmates at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Phil Woolpert trained the "Dons" from 1951 to 1959. During this time he and his team had a 153-78 record and produced basketball legends such as Bill Russell and KC Jones. In 1955, the Dons won the NCAA championships 76-73 against La Salle University (of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ). Thus Phil Woolpert was the youngest coach (then 40 years old), who won the NCAA championships with his team . The following year they again won the NCAA championships with 83-71 against the University of Iowa .

During Phil Woolpert's tenure at the University of San Francisco (USF), the USF basketball team won 60 games in a row. This record was only beaten in 1988 by John Wooden , the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) basketball team with 88 winning games.

In 1961 he coached the San Francisco Saints , a basketball team made up of Sino-Americans , in the American Basketball League. A year later he left the San Francisco Saints and became the coach and athletic director of the basketball team at the University of San Diego (USD). In 1972 he left the USD squad and moved to Sequim, Washington , where he worked as a school bus driver.

On May 11, 1992, Phil Woolpert was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach .

Awards

  • Coach of the Year (1955, 1956)
  • Pacific Coach of the Year (1957, 1958)

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personal data
SURNAME Woolpert, Phil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Danville , Kentucky, USA
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1987
Place of death Sequim , Washington, USA