Harry Rabenhorst
Harry Rabenhorst (1898-1972)
Teams coached: LSU Tigers
LSU record: 340-264 (.563)
Overall record: 340-264 (.563)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (1953, 1954)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 2 (1953, 1954)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (1953)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- SEC Regular Season Champion: 3 (1935, 1953, 1954)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 1945-1957 | LSU |
| 1925-1942 | LSU |
Harry Rabenhorst Facts
- Harry Aldrich Rabenhorst
- Born April 30, 1898
- Died March 24, 1972
- Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Alma Mater: Wake Forest College (BA, 1921)
- Played fullback on the Wake Forest football team, serving as captain for three seasons
- Also played basketball, baseball and ran track, serving as the coach of the track & field team during his time in school
- Was coached by E. T. MacDonald in basketball, baseball and football in 1917-18
- Listed as the head coach of record for the 1918 and 1919 seasons, during which the Deacs went 3-8
- Inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame (c/o 1972), becoming the seventh member
- Also played basketball, baseball and ran track, serving as the coach of the track & field team during his time in school
- Served in the US Navy at the end of World War I and then began his coaching career upon his return to the States
- Worked for one year Greensboro (NC) HS and three years at New Mexico Military Academy
- Started his long coaching career at LSU in 1925, becoming an assistant football coach and head basketball coach that year
- Held both of those roles from 1925-42 and also became head baseball coach in 1927, staying in that role until 1942
- Left the school in 1942 to returned to active duty with the Navy to serve in World War II
- Returned to Baton Rouge in 1945 and resumed his posts as head basketball and head baseball coach
- In 29 total seasons at the helm of the basketball program, Rabenhorst went 340-264 and won three SEC titles
- Led the Tigers to the 1953 Final Four and 1954 Sweet Sixteen (much of his tenure was pre-NCAA Tournament)
- Among the players he coached was 2x NBA MVP and Basketball Hall of Famer, Bob Pettit
- Went 228–240–7 in 27 seasons with the baseball team, winning two SEC titles and twice named SEC COY
- Held both of those roles from 1925-42 and also became head baseball coach in 1927, staying in that role until 1942
- Stopped coaching baseball in 1956 and basketball in 1957; served as LSU’s athletic director for a brief stint (1967-68)
- Inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (c/o 1970) and LSU Athletics Hall of Fame (c/o 2009)
Harry Rabenhorst Coaching Tree
- Jesse Fatherree (LSU)
- Dale Morey (LSU)
