1. George Henry Raveling was born on June 27,1937 and is an American former college basketball player and coach.
19 Facts About George Raveling
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George Raveling played at Villanova University, and was the head coach at Washington State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Southern California.
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George Raveling was enrolled at St Michael's, a Catholic boarding school in Hoban Heights, Pennsylvania; it was founded as an orphanage in 1916 near Scranton and closed in 2010.
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George Raveling's father died when he was 9 and his mother was institutionalized when he was 13, so academics became among the most influential forces in his life.
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George Raveling attended college at Villanova University near Philadelphia and played basketball for the Wildcats.
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George Raveling was team captain in his senior season, featured on the cover of the 1960 media guide, and led the Wildcats to consecutive appearances in the National Invitation Tournament in 1959 and 1960.
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George Raveling became an assistant coach at his alma mater Villanova, then moved to Maryland in 1969 on the staff of new head coach Lefty Driesell.
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George Raveling was on the podium with King at that moment, having volunteered to provide security.
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George Raveling kept the original, and had been offered more than three million dollars for the speech in 2013.
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George Raveling was the UPI Pac-8 Coach of the Year winner in 1976, its coach of the year twice, and was the national runner-up for AP coach of the year He was honored by WSU with his induction into the Pac-12 Hall of Honor.
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George Raveling succeeded Lute Olson as head coach at the University of Iowa in April 1983, and guided the Hawkeyes to consecutive 20-win seasons and NCAA tournament berths in 1985 and 1986.
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George Raveling gave the players a deadline to respond whether they would remain on the team.
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But, George Raveling had a falling out with Sonny over the business of summer high school basketball camps that Sonny ran.
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George Raveling was seriously injured, suffering nine broken ribs, a fractured pelvis and clavicle, and a George Raveling was in intensive care due to bleeding in his chest cavity for two weeks.
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George Raveling has worked as the Director for International Basketball for Nike since his retirement from USC, and has authored two books on rebounding drills, War on the Boards and A Rebounder's Workshop.
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George Raveling has served as a color commentator for CBS Sports and FOX Sports Net, often drawing assignments for Pac-10 conference games.
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George Raveling has the original typewritten "I Have a Dream" speech given to him by Martin Luther King Jr.
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George Raveling was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
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On February 14,2015, it was announced that George Raveling would be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when he selected for direct election by the Contributor Direct Election Committee.