Wooden, John

Wooden, John, 1910–, American basketball coach, b. Martinsville, Ind. The only athlete to be honored in the basketball Hall of Fame as both player and coach, he was named Player of the Year at Purdue Univ. in 1932. He went on to coach the Univ. of California at Los Angeles to 10 national championships in 12 years (1964–65, 1967–73, and 1975). During his coaching career at UCLA (1949–75), his teams won 664 games for the fourth all-time highest winning percentage (.804).

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Wooden, John (Robert) (1910–  ) basketball coach; born in Martinsville, Ind. He was a three-time All-American guard on Purdue University's basketball teams (1930–32). During his career as coach at the University of California: Los Angeles (1948–75), his teams won a record ten National Collegiate Athletic Association championships, seven of them consecutively (1967–73). He is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 1977 an annual award was established in his name to honor the outstanding college basketball player-student of the year.