| 683 | Friday, April 4, 2003 |
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| 4:00 PM-5:15 PM | Convention Center:103A |
| NASPE/Sport History Academy |
| Basketball's First Great Coach |
| “He was undoubtedly the greatest coach of his time,” said Nat Holman referring to hall of famer Prof Ernest Blood who coached the Passaic Wonder Teams to six undefeated seasons and a 188-1 record. Prof, who was known as the Grey Thatched Wizard, was a protégé of Dudley Allen Sargent and a disciple of Luther Halsey Gulick’s philosophy on sportsmanship. One of his Wonder Teams defeated an “unbeatable” Philadelphia high school all-star team 57-30. Prof registered three hundred career-coaching victories before Phog Allen, the Father of College Basketball Coaching started coaching. Prof’s coaching methods were a generation ahead of others. |
Keyword(s): athletics/sports, coaching, youth sports
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| Speaker: Charles J. Hess, Ka'a'awa Elementary School, Kailua, HI |