Pete Newell
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| Biographical details | ||||||||||||
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| Born | August 31, 1915 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | |||||||||||
| Died | November 17, 2008 (aged 93) Rancho Santa Fe, California, U.S. | |||||||||||
| Playing career | ||||||||||||
| Basketball | ||||||||||||
| 1939 | Loyola Marymount | |||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||||||||||||
| Basketball | ||||||||||||
| 1946–1950 | San Francisco | |||||||||||
| 1950–1954 | Michigan State | |||||||||||
| 1954–1960 | California | |||||||||||
| Baseball | ||||||||||||
| 1946–1950 | San Francisco | |||||||||||
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | ||||||||||||
| 1960–1968 | California | |||||||||||
| 1968–1971 | San Diego Rockets (GM) | |||||||||||
| 1972–1976 | Los Angeles Lakers (GM) | |||||||||||
| Head coaching record | ||||||||||||
| Overall | 233–123 (basketball) | |||||||||||
| Accomplishments and honors | ||||||||||||
| Championships | ||||||||||||
| Basketball NCAA University Division tournament (1959) 2 NCAA University Division Regional—Final Four (1959, 1960) NIT (1949) 3 PCC regular season (1957–1959) AAWU regular season (1960) | ||||||||||||
| Awards | ||||||||||||
| Henry Iba Award (1960) NABC Coach of the Year (1960) UPI Coach of the Year (1960) FIBA Hall of Fame (2009) | ||||||||||||
| Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1979 | ||||||||||||
| College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peter Francis Newell (August 31, 1915 – November 17, 2008) was an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach. He 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.
He led California to the NCAA title in 1959, and a year later coached the gold medal-winning U.S. 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. After his coaching career ended, he ran a world-famous instructional basketball camp and served as a consultant and scout for several National Basketball Association (NBA) teams.