Which famous people have you outlived?

Wilbur Johns

American basketball player and coach

Died when: 63 years 219 days (763 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Wilbur Johns

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.


Related People

Clifford Carlson
American basketball player and coach
Laurence Wild
American basketball player and coach
J. Craig Ruby
American basketball player and coach
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License