John Lance (basketball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American football and college basketball coach
Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1897
Place of Birth: Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Date of Death: 10-Sep-1981
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About John Lance (basketball)
- John F.
- Lance (October 29, 1897 – September 10, 1981) was an American football and college basketball coach.
- He served as the head football coach at Southwestern Oklahoma State University from 1918 to 1921.Lance's greatest coaching feats occurred on the hardwood, where he amassed a career record of 643 wins and 345 losses serving as the head men's basketball coach at Southwestern Oklahoma State (1918–1921) and at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas (1922–1934, 1935–1963).
- He became just the fifth coach in college basketball history to reach 600 career wins, joining the ranks of Ed Diddle, Hank Iba, Adolph Rupp, and Phog Allen.
- He led Pittsburg State to a 47-game win streak from 1929 to 1932, a record that stood for nearly a quarter of a century until the Bill Russell-led San Francisco Dons eclipsed that mark from 1955 to 1957.
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