Jack Rohan, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jack Rohan

American basketball player-coach

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1931

Date of Death: 09-Aug-2004

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Jack Rohan

  • John Patrick "Jack" Rohan (August 25, 1931 – August 9, 2004) was an American college basketball player and coach.
  • The Bellerose, New York native was men's head basketball coach at Columbia University between 1962 and 1974, and returned in 1991 to coach until 1995.
  • He is the most successful coach in Columbia basketball history.
  • Rohan was also a full professor and chairman of the department of physical education. Rohan attended Columbia from 1949 to 1953, and was a member of the famous 1950/51 team under coach Lou Rossini that went undefeated through its regular season, winning all 22 of its games and capturing the Ivy League title with a 12–0 mark.
  • Rohan earned a bachelor's degree in history from Columbia in 1953 and a master's from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1957.
  • From 1955 through 1958, he served variously as the varsity golf and freshman basketball coach at Columbia and the freshman basketball coach at New York University.
  • In 1962 he became head coach at Columbia.
  • Rohan was selected national Coach of the Year for the 1967–68 season after leading Columbia to the Ivy League championship.
  • That team, one of the best in Columbia history, compiled a 23–5 record and finished the season ranked sixth in the nation.
  • It was led by Jim McMillian and Dave Newmark, both of whom played professional basketball, and Heyward Dotson, an NBA and ABA draftee.
  • Rohan resigned his coaching post in 1974 to become the tenured chair of the physical education department.
  • He became the school's golf coach in 1976, but remained active in basketball as a much-sought-after basketball camp lecturer and clinician, broadcaster, and writer. In 1990 Rohan agreed to once again become head coach of the Lions.
  • He coached for five years, leading the team to a 43–87 record, including a 16–10 record and second-place finish in the Ivy League in 1992–93.
  • When he left the head coach's position, shortly after the conclusion of the 1995 season, he had compiled an overall record of 198–247.
  • His games coached (445) and his victories both stand as Columbia career records. Rohan died on August 9, 2004, aged 72, in a nursing home in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, of complications from Guillain–Barré syndrome.
  • He had been stricken with the disease since July 2003.

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