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==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Iba was born in Easton, [[Missouri]] on August 6, 1904. He was a natural athlete and began playing on the town's adult [[baseball]] team, which his father coached, at the age of 14. During his freshman year of high school, the school started a boys basketball team - the court was made from smoothed dirt and the baskets were homemade. Iba and the team gradually improved and by his senior year the team had made it to the third round of the state tournament and he was the leading scorer on the team. | |||
In 1923 he accepted an athletic scholarship to play basketball at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. | |||
==Oklahoma State== | ==Oklahoma State== | ||
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Henry Payne Iba (August 6, 1904 - January 15, 1993) was an American basketball coach. He coached for 36 years at Oklahoma State University (originally Oklahoma A&M), leading the team to two consecutive NCAA titles in 1945 and 1946. He also coached the USA Olympic basketball team in 1964, 1968, and 1972, winning two gold medals but losing in the controversial 1972 game which saw the Soviet Union win the gold.
Early life
Iba was born in Easton, Missouri on August 6, 1904. He was a natural athlete and began playing on the town's adult baseball team, which his father coached, at the age of 14. During his freshman year of high school, the school started a boys basketball team - the court was made from smoothed dirt and the baskets were homemade. Iba and the team gradually improved and by his senior year the team had made it to the third round of the state tournament and he was the leading scorer on the team.
In 1923 he accepted an athletic scholarship to play basketball at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
Oklahoma State
Olympics
Legacy
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