Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg (March 16, 1898 – January 31, 1985) was a

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and

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player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

Basketball

The

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native coached for 23 years at

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, and

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. Lonborg graduated in 1921 from

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, having played two years under coach

Phog Allen Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen (November 18, 1885 – September 16, 1974) was an American basketball coach. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching,"Amateur Athletic Union The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. It h ...

(AAU) title as a player with the

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Blue Diamonds. In 1925 he coached

to an AAU title, the last time a college team won that championship. Later he coached at Northwestern, getting 237 wins during his time there, and leading them to

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championships in 1931 and 1933. His 1930–31 team finished the season with a 16–1 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the

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. He had an overall 323–217 college coaching record at all three schools. After he retired from coaching, he became chairman of the NCAA Tournament Committee from 1947 to 1960, succeeding

Harold Olsen Harold G. Olsen (May 12, 1895 – October 29, 1953) was a college men's basketball coach. The Rice Lake, Wisconsin native was the head coach of the Ohio State University from 1922 to 1946. That year, he became the first head coach of the BAA's ...

. He was the U.S. Olympic team manager for the

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. He also served as the Kansas Jayhawks

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from 1950 to 1963. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1973 as a coach.

Head coaching record

Basketball

: Due to a scoring error during the Notre Dame game in 1936, a game which was originally ruled a 21–20 win for Notre Dame was determined to be a tie when it was discovered Notre Dame had received one more point than they had actually scored. Notre Dame returned to the court to finish the game, but Northwestern refused to return to the court. The Wildcats left the building and the game was deemed a tie.

Football

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