Philip Brownstein (May 17, 1906 – February 11, 1999) was an American basketball coach, scout, and general manager at the prep school and professional levels. He was the interim head coach for the

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, an early

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team, for 11 games during the 1948–49 season, and went 10–1 while head coach

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 ...

was out. Brownstein then took over as the Stags' head coach for the 1949–50 season and led them to a 40–28 record. Brownstein earned his undergraduate degree from the

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and his master's from

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. From 1929 to 1971, Brownstein served as a basketball coach and assistant principal at

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in his hometown of

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. He also served as a scout for the Harlem Globetrotters and as a general manager for the

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of the American Basketball League. He died on February 11, 1999, in Rush North Shore Medical Center in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brownstein, Philip 1906 births 1999 deaths Basketball coaches from Illinois Chicago Stags coaches DePaul University alumni High school basketball coaches in Illinois Sportspeople from Chicago University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni