Eddie Sutton

(1936- ) lived in Omaha. College basketball coach, during career as head coach at five colleges (Southern Idaho Junior College, Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma State) for 36 years, his teams have record of 807 wins and 302 losses; he became first coach to take four different universities in NCAA Division I to national tournament, where his teams have twice reached the final four. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, November 28, 1971, pp. 18, 21 and Sports Illustrated, December 16, 1985, pp. 30-32, 35 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992-95 Supplement (Greenwood Press, 1995) 305-306 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, December 20, 1998, p. C-1.

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