1. John W Mauer was an American college basketball, baseball and football coach and multi-sport college athlete.
16 Facts About John Mauer
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John Mauer was the head coach of the Tennessee baseball team.
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John Mauer served as the defensive backs coach for Tennessee under head coach General Robert Neyland.
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John Mauer scouted for the San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons, and New York Giants.
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John Mauer attended the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois from 1922 to 1926, where he played for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team.
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John Mauer was named Outstanding Athlete and Scholar in the Big Ten Conference as a senior, and graduated from Illinois with a bachelor's degree in 1926.
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John Mauer was the head coach in football, basketball, and track at Batavia High School, from 1926 to 1927, after which he was the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky from 1927 to 1930, immediately preceding the legendary Adolph Rupp.
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John Mauer did not have a winning record in his first five seasons with the Redskins, but posted winning records in two of his final three seasons.
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John Mauer became the head coach for the Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, for eight seasons between 1938 and 1947.
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In 1945, John Mauer led the team to the Quarterfinals in the National Invitation Tournament.
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John Mauer later served as the head coach for the Army Black Knights men's basketball team of the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, for four seasons from 1947 to 1951, and the Florida Gators men's basketball team of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, for nine seasons from 1951 to 1960.
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John Mauer died in Knoxville on December 20,1978; he was 77 years old.
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John Mauer was survived by his wife Grace, their two sons, and their five grandchildren.
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John Mauer was the first, and to date the only, person to serve as the head coach in the same sport at three different SEC universities.
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John Mauer's winning percentage as the Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball head coach remains the best of the modern era; his winning percentage as the Kentucky Wildcats' head is still among the program's six best of the modern era.
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John Mauer was posthumously inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.