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Howard Andrew "Hobby" Hobson (July 4, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was an American basketball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.
Jun 10, 1991 · Howard (Hobby) Hobson, who coached the University of Oregon basketball team to the first National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball championship in 1939 and was a member of the...
Jun 9, 1991 · Howard “Hobby” Hobson transferred his skills as a star baseball and basketball player at the University of Oregon into a well-rounded career on the hardwood as a coach, administrator, author, and clinician.
Mar 31, 2017 · Howard Hobson, the coach when the Ducks won the 1939 N.C.A.A. title, tested the long-range shot during a scrimmage six years later. It took a while to catch on.
Howard Andrew “Hobby” Hobson was a basketball pioneer and innovator who led the University of Oregon's Tall Firs to the 1939 NCAA Championship.
Mar 27, 1988 · The University of Oregon won the first NCAA basketball final in a rickety gym on a raised floor that forced players and coaches to crane their necks to see the action. The tournament lost $2,600...
Hobson finished his career at Yale, but returned to Oregon for the remainder of his life. By then, it was clear, Hobby knew basketball. His book, Shooting Ducks, is the most complete chronicle of Oregon basketball through the 1980s.
