William Scot Bowman

(1933- ) lived in Omaha. Professional hockey coach and executive, considered among the top coaches ever in major North American sports, he was head coach for 30 seasons in the National Hockey League with teams in St. Louis, Montreal, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Detroit, winning a total of nine Stanley Cups and becoming the winningest coach in NHL history with 1,244 victories and .654 winning percentage, inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991. Consult Omaha Sunday World Herald Magazine, October 20, 1963, p. 15 and Sports Illustrated, June 29, 1998, pp. 64-66, 71 and Current Biography (1999) 87- 91 and Omaha World Herald, June 18, 2002, p. C-5.

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