Sam Barry
Sam Barry (1892-195)
Teams coached: Knox Prairie Fire, Iowa Hawkeyes, USC Trojans
Knox record^: 38-15 (.717)
Iowa record: 62-54 (.534)
USC record: 260-138 (.653)
Overall record^: 360-207 (.635)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (1940)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (1940)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- PCC Regular Season Champion: 3 (1930, 1932, 1940)
- Big Ten Regular Season Champion: 2 (1923, 1926)
- Helms Foundation National Championships: 1 (1940)
Awards:
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted 1979)
- National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted 2006)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 1945-1950 | USC |
| 1929-1941 | USC |
| 1922-1929 | Iowa |
| 1918-1922 | Knox (IL) |
Sam Barry Facts
- Justin McCarthy Barry
- Born December 17, 1892
- Died September 23, 1950
- Hometown: Aberdeen, South Dakota
- Alma Mater: University of Wisconsin (BA, 1916)
- Played basketball, baseball and football Madison High School (WI) before moving on to Lawrence College in Appleton, WI
- After finishing his degree at UW, he returned to his alma mater Madison HS to start his coaching career
- Hired in 1918 as the athletic director at Knox College in Galesburg, IL, where he was also basketball and football head coach
- Left for Iowa in 1922, where he was the head basketball coach for seven seasons
- Also served as an assistant football coach under Howard Jones, as well as the head baseball coach for two seasons
- Finished his coaching career at USC, spending seventeen years (with a break from 1942-45 as Barry served in the US Navy during WW2) as the head basketball coach, head baseball coach and an assistant football coach (plus one year as head coach, going 2-6-1 in 1941)
- Won six PCC titles at USC and reached the 1940 NCAA Final Four with a team that was later crowned the Helms Foundation National Champion
- Had a 40-game win streak against UCLA, from 1932-1942, 1946, the longest win-streak for any head coach against a single opponent
- As the head baseball coach, Barry led the Trojans to the College World Series twice, defeating Yale (featuring future US President George H. W. Bush) for the title in 1948
- With the football team, Barry was a part of five Rose Bowl victories and three national championships (1931, 1932, 1939)
- Barry is one of just three coaches to have lead a team to the NCAA Final Four in basketball and the College World Series in baseball
Sam Barry Coaching Tree
- Jack Gardner (Utah, Kansas State)
- Alex Hannum (Denver/SD Rockets, Oakland Oaks, Philadelphia 76ers, SF Warriors, Syracuse Nationals, St. Louis Hawks)
- Bill Sharman (LA Lakers, LA/Utah Stars, SF Warriors)
- Forrest Twogood (USC)
- Tex Winter (Long Beach State, Northwestern, Houston Rockets, Washington, Kansas State, Marquette)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division III levels
