William C. Fitch

(1934- ) lived in Omaha. Professional and college basketball coach, as head coach of five professional teams for 25 years, he was among the winningest NBA coaches of all time, with a record of 999 wins and 1160 losses, and his Boston Celtics team won 1981 NBA championship; previously, as head coach for five college basketball teams for 12 seasons his record was 181 wins and 115 losses; served as assistant basketball coach at Creighton University from 1956 to 1958. Consult New York Times, May 26, 1986, p. 37 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1989-1992 Supplement For Baseball, Football, Basketball and Other Sports (Greenwood Press, 1992) 281-282 and 1995 Information Please Sports Almanac (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) 361-363 and Toronto Sun, March 27, 2003.

Back to Sports
Back to Categories