Age: 66 yrs.
S/O Frank Julian & Marie (Faust) Julian
H/O (1) Gertrude E. (Steffenberg) Julian, m. 25 Nov 1925, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
F/O Alvin F. Julian, Jr. (12 Oct 1926-28 Sep 2006)
H/O (2) ___ Julian
F/O Franklin T. Julian
F/O Christine (Julian) Beckwith Sheffield
H/O (3) Lena V. (Tobias) Julian (13 Jul 1909-6 Jan 2008), m. 1937
Last Residence: Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire 03755, USA [SSDI]
Obituary, Associated Press, 28 Jul 1967:
Hanover, N.H., July 28 (AP) — Alvin F. Julian, Dartmouth's basketball coarch for 17 years, died today at a nursing home in nearby White River Junction, Vt. He was 66 years old. Mr Julian, who was known as Doggie, suffered a stroke last December while coaching Dartmouth in the Kodak Classic tourney in Rochester.
Stirred Support for Game
In 1947 Mr. Julian coached the Holy Cross College basketball team—a team then without a gymnasium of its own—to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. In a coaching career of 40 years he served Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Muhlenberg, Albright College and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. In 1950 he tore up a lucrative contract with the Boston Celtics to coach at Dartmouth.
He was a nervous, small man with a prominent nose, and had the ability to communicate his boundless enthusiasm for basketball to anyone he met.
In 1947 Walter Brown, then general manager of the Boston Garden, said of Mr. Julian: "He made the game a paying proposition for us and his college when it looked as though it wouldn't go here in New England. Doggie and his kids did what nobody else was able to accomplish before. They went out and made everybody basket-ball-conscious. They did everything but carry placards on their backs to remind people that basketball was a major sport everywhere else in the country."
Helped Train Bob Cousy
His instruction helped develop such players as George Kaftan, who followed him into the professional game, and Bob Cousy, former star of the Boston Celtics who is now coach at Boston College.
Mr. Julian also coached football, but basketball was his passion from his high school days in his native Reading, Pa., where he was allowed to work out with the touring Original Celtics.
He graduated in 1923 from Bucknell University, where he starred in football, basketball and baseball. He became a professional baseball player and was catcher on the Reading team in the International League. He smashed a finger and switched to football with a Pottsville, Pa. team, before entering college coaching. Mr. Julian maintained that spirit matched with knowledge of fundamentals could produce a winning team. New wrinkles in football or basketball he regarded as "new twists on old basics."
Named to Hall of Fame
His lifetime basketball coaching record was 386 wins and 342 losses. A former president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, he was named to the Helms Athletic Foundation College Basketball Hall of Fame in 1963. Last season a new Christmas basketball festival at Boston Garden was named for him.
He was author of "Bread and Butter Basketball," a popular test on playing and coaching, published in 1960 by Prentice-Hall. He was the "color commentator" on the 26-station network that broadcasts Dartmouth football games, and had a Hanover-area radio sports show.
Survivors include his widow, Lee; two sons, Alvin Jr. of Reading and Franklin T. of Tops, Mass., and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Beckwith of Hanover.
A Funeral service will be held Monday at 11:30 A.M. at the Catholic Student Center at Dartmouth.
S/O Frank Julian & Marie (Faust) Julian
H/O (1) Gertrude E. (Steffenberg) Julian, m. 25 Nov 1925, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
F/O Alvin F. Julian, Jr. (12 Oct 1926-28 Sep 2006)
H/O (2) ___ Julian
F/O Franklin T. Julian
F/O Christine (Julian) Beckwith Sheffield
H/O (3) Lena V. (Tobias) Julian (13 Jul 1909-6 Jan 2008), m. 1937
Last Residence: Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire 03755, USA [SSDI]
Obituary, Associated Press, 28 Jul 1967:
Hanover, N.H., July 28 (AP) — Alvin F. Julian, Dartmouth's basketball coarch for 17 years, died today at a nursing home in nearby White River Junction, Vt. He was 66 years old. Mr Julian, who was known as Doggie, suffered a stroke last December while coaching Dartmouth in the Kodak Classic tourney in Rochester.
Stirred Support for Game
In 1947 Mr. Julian coached the Holy Cross College basketball team—a team then without a gymnasium of its own—to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. In a coaching career of 40 years he served Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Muhlenberg, Albright College and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. In 1950 he tore up a lucrative contract with the Boston Celtics to coach at Dartmouth.
He was a nervous, small man with a prominent nose, and had the ability to communicate his boundless enthusiasm for basketball to anyone he met.
In 1947 Walter Brown, then general manager of the Boston Garden, said of Mr. Julian: "He made the game a paying proposition for us and his college when it looked as though it wouldn't go here in New England. Doggie and his kids did what nobody else was able to accomplish before. They went out and made everybody basket-ball-conscious. They did everything but carry placards on their backs to remind people that basketball was a major sport everywhere else in the country."
Helped Train Bob Cousy
His instruction helped develop such players as George Kaftan, who followed him into the professional game, and Bob Cousy, former star of the Boston Celtics who is now coach at Boston College.
Mr. Julian also coached football, but basketball was his passion from his high school days in his native Reading, Pa., where he was allowed to work out with the touring Original Celtics.
He graduated in 1923 from Bucknell University, where he starred in football, basketball and baseball. He became a professional baseball player and was catcher on the Reading team in the International League. He smashed a finger and switched to football with a Pottsville, Pa. team, before entering college coaching. Mr. Julian maintained that spirit matched with knowledge of fundamentals could produce a winning team. New wrinkles in football or basketball he regarded as "new twists on old basics."
Named to Hall of Fame
His lifetime basketball coaching record was 386 wins and 342 losses. A former president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, he was named to the Helms Athletic Foundation College Basketball Hall of Fame in 1963. Last season a new Christmas basketball festival at Boston Garden was named for him.
He was author of "Bread and Butter Basketball," a popular test on playing and coaching, published in 1960 by Prentice-Hall. He was the "color commentator" on the 26-station network that broadcasts Dartmouth football games, and had a Hanover-area radio sports show.
Survivors include his widow, Lee; two sons, Alvin Jr. of Reading and Franklin T. of Tops, Mass., and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Beckwith of Hanover.
A Funeral service will be held Monday at 11:30 A.M. at the Catholic Student Center at Dartmouth.
Age: 66 yrs.
S/O Frank Julian & Marie (Faust) Julian
H/O (1) Gertrude E. (Steffenberg) Julian, m. 25 Nov 1925, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
F/O Alvin F. Julian, Jr. (12 Oct 1926-28 Sep 2006)
H/O (2) ___ Julian
F/O Franklin T. Julian
F/O Christine (Julian) Beckwith Sheffield
H/O (3) Lena V. (Tobias) Julian (13 Jul 1909-6 Jan 2008), m. 1937
Last Residence: Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire 03755, USA [SSDI]
Obituary, Associated Press, 28 Jul 1967:
Hanover, N.H., July 28 (AP) — Alvin F. Julian, Dartmouth's basketball coarch for 17 years, died today at a nursing home in nearby White River Junction, Vt. He was 66 years old. Mr Julian, who was known as Doggie, suffered a stroke last December while coaching Dartmouth in the Kodak Classic tourney in Rochester.
Stirred Support for Game
In 1947 Mr. Julian coached the Holy Cross College basketball team—a team then without a gymnasium of its own—to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. In a coaching career of 40 years he served Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Muhlenberg, Albright College and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. In 1950 he tore up a lucrative contract with the Boston Celtics to coach at Dartmouth.
He was a nervous, small man with a prominent nose, and had the ability to communicate his boundless enthusiasm for basketball to anyone he met.
In 1947 Walter Brown, then general manager of the Boston Garden, said of Mr. Julian: "He made the game a paying proposition for us and his college when it looked as though it wouldn't go here in New England. Doggie and his kids did what nobody else was able to accomplish before. They went out and made everybody basket-ball-conscious. They did everything but carry placards on their backs to remind people that basketball was a major sport everywhere else in the country."
Helped Train Bob Cousy
His instruction helped develop such players as George Kaftan, who followed him into the professional game, and Bob Cousy, former star of the Boston Celtics who is now coach at Boston College.
Mr. Julian also coached football, but basketball was his passion from his high school days in his native Reading, Pa., where he was allowed to work out with the touring Original Celtics.
He graduated in 1923 from Bucknell University, where he starred in football, basketball and baseball. He became a professional baseball player and was catcher on the Reading team in the International League. He smashed a finger and switched to football with a Pottsville, Pa. team, before entering college coaching. Mr. Julian maintained that spirit matched with knowledge of fundamentals could produce a winning team. New wrinkles in football or basketball he regarded as "new twists on old basics."
Named to Hall of Fame
His lifetime basketball coaching record was 386 wins and 342 losses. A former president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, he was named to the Helms Athletic Foundation College Basketball Hall of Fame in 1963. Last season a new Christmas basketball festival at Boston Garden was named for him.
He was author of "Bread and Butter Basketball," a popular test on playing and coaching, published in 1960 by Prentice-Hall. He was the "color commentator" on the 26-station network that broadcasts Dartmouth football games, and had a Hanover-area radio sports show.
Survivors include his widow, Lee; two sons, Alvin Jr. of Reading and Franklin T. of Tops, Mass., and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Beckwith of Hanover.
A Funeral service will be held Monday at 11:30 A.M. at the Catholic Student Center at Dartmouth.
S/O Frank Julian & Marie (Faust) Julian
H/O (1) Gertrude E. (Steffenberg) Julian, m. 25 Nov 1925, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
F/O Alvin F. Julian, Jr. (12 Oct 1926-28 Sep 2006)
H/O (2) ___ Julian
F/O Franklin T. Julian
F/O Christine (Julian) Beckwith Sheffield
H/O (3) Lena V. (Tobias) Julian (13 Jul 1909-6 Jan 2008), m. 1937
Last Residence: Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire 03755, USA [SSDI]
Obituary, Associated Press, 28 Jul 1967:
Hanover, N.H., July 28 (AP) — Alvin F. Julian, Dartmouth's basketball coarch for 17 years, died today at a nursing home in nearby White River Junction, Vt. He was 66 years old. Mr Julian, who was known as Doggie, suffered a stroke last December while coaching Dartmouth in the Kodak Classic tourney in Rochester.
Stirred Support for Game
In 1947 Mr. Julian coached the Holy Cross College basketball team—a team then without a gymnasium of its own—to the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. In a coaching career of 40 years he served Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Muhlenberg, Albright College and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. In 1950 he tore up a lucrative contract with the Boston Celtics to coach at Dartmouth.
He was a nervous, small man with a prominent nose, and had the ability to communicate his boundless enthusiasm for basketball to anyone he met.
In 1947 Walter Brown, then general manager of the Boston Garden, said of Mr. Julian: "He made the game a paying proposition for us and his college when it looked as though it wouldn't go here in New England. Doggie and his kids did what nobody else was able to accomplish before. They went out and made everybody basket-ball-conscious. They did everything but carry placards on their backs to remind people that basketball was a major sport everywhere else in the country."
Helped Train Bob Cousy
His instruction helped develop such players as George Kaftan, who followed him into the professional game, and Bob Cousy, former star of the Boston Celtics who is now coach at Boston College.
Mr. Julian also coached football, but basketball was his passion from his high school days in his native Reading, Pa., where he was allowed to work out with the touring Original Celtics.
He graduated in 1923 from Bucknell University, where he starred in football, basketball and baseball. He became a professional baseball player and was catcher on the Reading team in the International League. He smashed a finger and switched to football with a Pottsville, Pa. team, before entering college coaching. Mr. Julian maintained that spirit matched with knowledge of fundamentals could produce a winning team. New wrinkles in football or basketball he regarded as "new twists on old basics."
Named to Hall of Fame
His lifetime basketball coaching record was 386 wins and 342 losses. A former president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, he was named to the Helms Athletic Foundation College Basketball Hall of Fame in 1963. Last season a new Christmas basketball festival at Boston Garden was named for him.
He was author of "Bread and Butter Basketball," a popular test on playing and coaching, published in 1960 by Prentice-Hall. He was the "color commentator" on the 26-station network that broadcasts Dartmouth football games, and had a Hanover-area radio sports show.
Survivors include his widow, Lee; two sons, Alvin Jr. of Reading and Franklin T. of Tops, Mass., and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Beckwith of Hanover.
A Funeral service will be held Monday at 11:30 A.M. at the Catholic Student Center at Dartmouth.
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JULIAN
ALVIN F.
1901 – 1967
LENA T.
1909 - 2008
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