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American basketball player and coach, college athletic administrator
Wilbur Johns
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American basketball player and coach, college athletic administrator
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Male
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Birth:
8 December 1903(Los Angeles, USA)
Death:
15 July 1967(Los Angeles, USA)
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Biography
Introduction
Wilbur Johns (December 8, 1903 – July 14, 1967) was an American men's college basketball coach and athletics administrator. He was the head basketball coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), prior to John Wooden, serving from 1939 to 1948, and guiding the UCLA Bruins to a 93–120 record in nine seasons. Johns was also the school's athletic director following from 1947 to 1963. He is a 1985 inductee to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame. He died at his home at age 63 on July 14, 1967.
Johns played four years basketball at UCLA, graduating in 1925.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| UCLA Bruins (Pacific Coast Conference) | |||||||||
| 1939–40 | UCLA | 8–17 | 3–9 | 4th | |||||
| 1940–41 | UCLA | 6–20 | 2–10 | 4th | |||||
| 1941–42 | UCLA | 5–18 | 2–10 | 4th | |||||
| 1942–43 | UCLA | 14–7 | 4–4 | 2nd | |||||
| 1943–44 | UCLA | 10–10 | 3–3 | 2nd | |||||
| 1944–45 | UCLA | 12–12 | 3–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1945–46 | UCLA | 8–16 | 5–7 | 3rd | |||||
| 1946–47 | UCLA | 18–7 | 9–3 | 1st | |||||
| 1947–48 | UCLA | 12–13 | 3–9 | 3rd | |||||
| UCLA: | 93–120 | 34–56 | |||||||
| Total: | 93–120 | ||||||||
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