Pete Newell
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Pete Newell
Peter Francis Newellwas an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach. He coached for 15 years at the University of San Francisco, Michigan State University and the University of California, Berkeley, compiling an overall record of 234 wins and 123 losses. He led the University of California to the 1959 NCAA men's basketball championship, and a year later coached the gold medal-winning U.S. team at the 1960 Summer Olympics, a team that would be inducted as a unit...
arranged private
They'd come all the way from Korea, so we arranged for some private instruction.
teaching practice two
Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.
player
When he said the player was 6-7, I was skeptical,