Peter Francis Newell was an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach.
17 Facts About Pete Newell
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Pete Newell coached for 15 years at the University of San Francisco, Michigan State University, and the University of California, Berkeley, compiling an overall record of 234 wins and 123 losses.
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Pete Newell led California to the NCAA title in 1959, and a year later coached the gold medal-winning US team at the 1960 Summer Olympics, a team that would be inducted as a unit to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Pete Newell graduated from St Agnes High School and was a classmate of Phil Woolpert at Loyola University of Los Angeles, and played on its basketball and baseball teams.
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Pete Newell returned to the West Coast in 1954 when he was hired as head coach at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Pete Newell himself earned national Coach of the Year honors in 1960.
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Pete Newell coached the US men's Olympic basketball team to a gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, leading a talented squad that featured future National Basketball Association stars and Hall of Famers Walt Bellamy, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Jerry Lucas.
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Pete Newell is known to have introduced the reverse-action offense in the late 1950s.
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Pete Newell served as general manager of the San Diego Rockets from 1968 to 1971, until the team was sold to Houston in June, 1971.
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Pete Newell served as the Director of Player Development for the NBA.
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Pete Newell retired from his job as Lakers general manager in 1976 to spend more time with his ailing wife.
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The camp originated when word spread that Pete Newell was working with Kermit Washington.
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Pete Newell attracted this list of players due to his reputation of teaching footwork, being what one publication described as "The Footwork Master".
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Pete Newell died at Rancho Santa Fe, California on November 17,2008, at age 93.
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In 1979 Pete Newell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor, and in 2010 the 1960 Olympic team he coached was inducted into the Hall as a unit.
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In 1999, author Bruce Jenkins published a biography of Pete Newell entitled A Good Man.
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However, his contributions to the game of basketball have been so great that according to many Pete Newell has perhaps had as much or more influence on the game of basketball as any person in the modern era.