John Mauer
The Illio, 1927
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| Sport(s) | Basketball, baseball, football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 4, 1901 Aurora, Illinois |
| Died | December 20, 1978 (aged 77) Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Playing career | |
| 1922–1926 | Illinois |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Basketball | |
| 1927–1930 | Kentucky |
| 1930–1938 | Miami University |
| 1938–1947 | Tennessee |
| 1947–1951 | Army |
| 1951–1960 | Florida |
| Baseball | |
| 1939–1942 | Tennessee |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | Basketball: 344–272 (.558) Baseball: 24–23 (.511) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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SEC (1941, 1943) SEC Tournament (1941, 1943) |
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John W. Mauer (September 4, 1901 – December 20, 1978) was an American college basketball, baseball and football coach and multi-sport college athlete. During the course of his 36-year collegiate coaching career, Mauer was the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, Miami University, the University of Tennessee, the U.S. Military Academy, and the University of Florida.
Mauer was born in 1901 at Aurora, Illinois. Both of his parents died by the time he was 13 years old, and he was raised by his older sister. With the financial assistance of a local businessman, he attended Batavia High School in Batavia, Illinois and was able to enroll in college.
Mauer attended the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois from 1922 to 1926, where he played for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team. As a player, he was remembered for being one of the pioneers of one-handed shooting. While attending Illinois, his roommate was Illini football great Harold E. "Red" Grange. Mauer was named Outstanding Athlete and Scholar in the Big Ten Conference as a senior, and graduated from Illinois with a bachelor's degree in 1926.
Mauer was the head coach in football, basketball, and track at Batavia High School, from 1926 to 1927, after which he was the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky from 1927 to 1930, immediately preceding the legendary Adolph Rupp. Mauer's successful Wildcats teams were known as the "Mauer men," and he was one of the first coaches to popularize the bounce pass as an element of basketball offense. His Wildcats teams posted an overall win-loss record of 40–14 (.741) in three seasons.
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