Sam Barry
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
December 17, 1892 Aberdeen, South Dakota |
| Died | September 23, 1950 (aged 57) Berkeley, California |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1918–1921 | Knox (IL) |
| 1922–1928 | Iowa (assistant) |
| 1929–1940 | USC (assistant) |
| 1941 | USC |
| 1945–1950 | USC (assistant) |
| Basketball | |
| 1918–1922 | Knox (IL) |
| 1922–1929 | Iowa |
| 1929–1941 | USC |
| 1945–1950 | USC |
| Baseball | |
| 1923–1924 | Iowa |
| 1930–1942 | USC |
| 1946–1950 | USC |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 17–18–5 (football) 360–207 (basketball) 361–141–4 (baseball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Basketball 2 Big Ten (1923, 1926) 4 PCC (1930, 1933, 1935, 1940) 6 PCC South Division (1930, 1933–1935, 1939–1940) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1979 (profile) |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 |
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Justin McCarthy "Sam" Barry (December 17, 1892 – September 23, 1950) was an American collegiate athletic coach who achieved significant accomplishments in three major sports. He remains one of only three coaches to lead teams to both the Final Four and the College World Series. Barry, and four of his USC players (Jack Gardner, Alex Hannum, Tex Winter and Bill Sharman), have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches; Sharman was also inducted as a player.
Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Barry starred in basketball, baseball, and football in high school in Madison, Wisconsin. He continued his success at Lawrence College in Appleton, later completing his degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He returned to Madison High School to begin his coaching career, and then became the athletic director at Knox College in Illinois from 1918 to 1922, where he also served as coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track.
In 1922, Barry was named basketball coach at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and also became a football assistant under Hawkeyes head coach Howard Jones, an association which would continue for 15 years at two universities. Barry also coached the baseball team in 1923 and 1924. He led the Hawkeye basketball team to Big Ten Conference co-championships in 1923 and 1926—the first two conference titles in team history. In 1929, he wrote a handbook on the sport: "Basketball: Individual Play and Team Play" that featured University of Iowa players and facilities. He also helped Jones guide the football squad to an undefeated 7–0 season in 1922, winning a share of the Big Ten title—the last for Hawkeyes football until 1956.
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