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John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including an unprecedented seven in a row.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Wooden: A Coaching Legend )〕 Within this period, his teams won a men's basketball-record 88 consecutive games. Wooden's streak of seven consecutive NCAA Championships is even more remarkable and impressive because to this day no other coach or school has won the tournament more than two consecutive years. Wooden was named national coach of the year six times. As a 5' 10" guard, Wooden was the first to be named basketball All-American three times, and the 1932 Purdue team on which he played as a senior was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Wooden was named a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player (inducted in 1961) and as a coach (in 1973), the first person ever enshrined in both categories. Only Lenny Wilkens, Bill Sharman and Tommy Heinsohn have since been accorded the same honors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Lenny Wilkens Coach Bio )〕 One of the most revered coaches in the history of sports, Wooden was beloved by his former players, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (originally Lew Alcindor) and Bill Walton. Wooden was renowned for his short, simple inspirational messages to his players, including his "Pyramid of Success". These often were directed at how to be a success in life as well as in basketball.〔 ==Early life and playing career== Born in 1910 in the town of Hall, Indiana,〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Journey – A Brief Professional and Personal History Timeline – 1910 )〕 to Roxie Anna (1887–1959) and Joshua Hugh Wooden (1882–1950), Wooden moved with his family to a small farm in Centerton in 1918.〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Journey – A Brief Professional and Personal History Timeline – 1918 )〕 He had three brothers:〔 Maurice, Daniel, and William,〔 and two sisters, one of whom died in infancy and was unnamed〔 and another, Harriet Cordelia, who died from diphtheria at the age of two.〔 As a boy, one of his role models was Fuzzy Vandivier of the Franklin Wonder Five, a legendary basketball team that dominated Indiana high school basketball from 1919 to 1922. After his family moved to the town of Martinsville when he was 14,〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Journey – A Brief Professional and Personal History Timeline – 1924 )〕 he led the high school team to the state championship finals for three consecutive years,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Journey – A Brief Professional and Personal History Timeline – 1926 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Journey – A Brief Professional and Personal History Timeline – 1927 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Journey – A Brief Professional and Personal History Timeline – 1928 )〕 winning the tournament in 1927.〔 He was a three-time All-State selection.〔 After graduating in 1928, he attended Purdue University and was coached by Ward "Piggy" Lambert. The 1932 Purdue team on which he played as a senior was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. John Wooden was named All-Big Ten and All-Midwestern (1930–32) while at Purdue, and he was the first player ever to be named a three-time consensus All-American.〔(【引用サイトリンク】The Journey – A Brief Professional and Personal History Timeline – 1930–1932 )〕 He was also selected for membership in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Chapter History )〕 Wooden is also an honorary member of the International Co-Ed Fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. Wooden was nicknamed "The Indiana Rubber Man" for his suicidal dives on the hardcourt.〔 He graduated from Purdue in 1932 with a degree in English.〔 After college, Wooden spent several years playing professionally with the Indianapolis Kautskys (later the Indianapolis Jets), Whiting Ciesar All-Americans,〔 and Hammond Ciesar All-Americans〔 while teaching and coaching in the high school ranks.〔 During one 46-game stretch, he made 134 consecutive free throws.〔 He was named to the NBL's First Team for the 1937–38 season. In 1942, during World War II, he joined the United States Navy. He served for nearly three years and left the service as a lieutenant.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Wooden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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