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He was 99. John Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood, FIBA teams cui''UCLA has won 10 NCAA titles between 1964 and 1975 and has a record of 88 consecutive victories between 1971 and '74, died last night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he had been hospitalized since May 26

1971-1972 Wood team scored an NCAA record for margin of victory average, 30.3 points. The only constant at UCLA, different colors cobalt blue and gold, was Mr. Wood. He had a winning percentage of .808 UCLA – and a career winning percentage of .813. Four times he coached an unbeaten team. He did all this despite a regular rotation of staff. Mr.

"There are three things that are essential to the success of basketball,''he wrote in his 1972 autobiography, 'They call me coach,''" fundamental condition, and work together as a team.''All three were essential to the success of the two characteristics of M. reserved Personally, aluminum foil is a horror and off the field. basket of Mark Wood, a fast break offense and pressure on the defense.

The wood that were very well organized and has demanded their control. Walton, meanwhile, is often said practices have been much more difficult of the tournament games at UCLA also because Mr. Wood wrote in his report of the 1997 book, "Wood heard perform ..''" practice session was almost like teaching English in a class that I wanted to have a lesson plan,''Mr.

There were clashes with the actors, including Walton, who was arrested in a demonstration against the war. The wood was in advance. Mr. Back in 1947, when as coach of Indiana State Teachers College, Mr. But key aspects of Mr. Wood withdrew his team to a championship tournament that was isolated. conservative style of wood and rigid discipline has come to seem increasingly anachronistic in the '70s and early '60s.

(Mr. Wood, who began smoking while serving in the Navy during World War II, every basketball season is not a bad example for their players. "San Juan,''Los Angeles Times Sports called Mr. Jim Murray finally stopped altogether.) "It's so square is divisible by four,''Murray wrote. Wood, who pledged to be more pious Protestant, nor drunk, nor.

laying wooden church, "we thought we had a baby repaired, but Jesus Christ came in parents of children in the fall. wood as "more like a minister of a coach.''Coach Competitors complained M. How can you take Jesus Christ?''. The mother of his most famous player, Abdul-Jabbar, described Mr.

Make friendship a fine art. John Robert Wooden was born in Martinsville, Indiana, in October of irrigation good books. 14, 1910. Throughout his life, Mr. Make every day a masterpiece. Build a shelter against rain one day..'' Wood took the portfolio of a manuscript copy of the religion of his father: "Be true to yourself. His parents, Joshua Hugh and Roxie Wood (Rothrock) of wood, were farmers.

After graduating in 1932, Mr. He has trained and taught one year at Kentucky, recording his only season as player or coach to lose, and then returned to Indiana to spend 10 years in South Bend Central High School. However, he earned his living as a coach and English teacher. Wood has played semi-professional basketball (no professional leagues in the 30s).

It was a big winter storm has delayed calling a Minnesota couple of hours. preferably wood was from Minnesota. When Mr. supply of UCLA, is expected of Minnesota. After the war, Mr. Gopher heard on schedule, opted for UCLA. Wood became the basketball coach at Indiana State. The accumulation of a winning percentage of .839 during his two seasons, has attracted offers from the University of Minnesota and UCLA.

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