Bruce Drake

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Bruce Drake (December 5, 1905 – December 4, 1983) was a college men's basketball coach. The Gentry, Texas native was head coach at the University of Oklahoma between 1938 and 1955, compiling a 200-181 record. He also coached the Air Force team to a 34-14 record in 1956

Prior to coaching, he was also a star for Hugh McDermott's Oklahoma team. He was a 1928-29 Helms Foundation All American.

As a coach Drake made 2 Final Fours the first one in 1939 Where they lost to Oregon 55-37 and in 1947 where he lost in the Championship Game to Holy Cross 58-47. He made 1 more additional NCAA tournament appearance in 1943 though he coached at a time when only 8 team made the tournament. In all he won or tied for 6 conference championships (Big Six and Big Seven).

He coached 5 Olympic (Wayne Glasgow and Marcus Freiberger of University of Oklahoma, 1952; Bill Evans, Ron Tomsic and Gib Ford of Air Force team, 1956) and three All-Americans (Jimmy McNatt, 1940; Gerald Tucker, 1943, 1947; Allie Paine, 1944)

Drake was selected as the assistant coach for the 1956 USA Men's Basketball Gold Medal Olympic Team ^[1]

In 1958 he coached the Wichita Vickers in the National Industrial Basketball League getting 30-21 record tying him for first with his old player Gerald Tucker who was coaching the Bartlesville Phillips 66ers.

lasting contributions Drake developed the Shuffle offense. He helped make goal tending illegal. He was the Chairman of the NCAA Rules Committee from 1951–55

He made the Basketball Hall of Fame as a Coach in 1973

[edit] See also

NCAA Men's Division I Final Four appearances by coaches

[edit] References

^ http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=moly_1956

[edit] External links

Basketball Hall of Fame profile

v d e Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball head coaches

David C. Hall (1907–1908) Bennie Owen (1908–1921) Hugh McDermott (1921–1938) Bruce Drake (1938–1955) Doyle Parrack (1955–1962) Bob Stevens (1962–1967) John MacLeod (1967–1973) Joe Ramsey (1973–1975) Dave Bliss (1975–1980) Billy Tubbs (1980–1994) Kelvin Sampson (1994–2006) Jeff Capel III (2006–2011) Lon Kruger (2011– )

v d e 1956 Olympic Champions Men's Basketball team - United States

Cain Hougland Jones Russell Walsh Evans Haldorson Tomsic Boushka Ford Jeangerard Darling Coach: Tucker Assistant Coach: Drake

v d e Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1973

Players	John Beckman Dolph Schayes

Coaches	Bruce Drake Dutch Lonborg John Wooden

Contributors	Elmer Ripley

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

Coaches (86)

Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nikolić Novosel Olson Ramsay Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Taylor Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens Williams Winter Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players

Contributors (58)

Players (149)

Guards	Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cooper-Dyke Cousy Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Jeannette D. Johnson E. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers Monroe Mullin Murphy Page Petrović Robertson Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Steinmetz Stockton Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West Wilkens Woodard Wooden

Forwards	Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Heinsohn Howell G. Johnson Lucas Luisetti K. Malone B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen Miller Pettit Phillip Pippen Pollard Ramsey Rodman Schayes Schmidt Stokes Thompson Twyman White Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Bellamy Chamberlain Cooper Ćosić Cowens Crawford DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel W. Johnson Johnston Krause Kurland Lanier Lovellette Lapchick Macauley M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Murphy Olajuwon Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

Referees (13)

Enright Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh

Teams (8)

1960 United States Olympic Team 1992 United States Olympic Team Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters New York Rens Original Celtics Texas Western

Awards

Website: http://www.hoophall.com/

Persondata
Name	Drake, Bruce
Alternative names
Short description	Basketball player and coach
Date of birth	December 5, 1905
Place of birth	Gentry, Texas
Date of death	December 4, 1983
Place of death