Weston Mitchell

Weston “Wes” Mitchell (December 8, 1890 – July 1962) was the head basketball coach for the Minnesota Golden Gophers for one lone season in 1944-45. Mitchell replaced Carl Nordly as coach after Nordly had steered the Gophers to a 17-23 record over two seasons after replacing long-time coach Dave McMillan. McMillan came back to coach the Gophers again for the 1945-46 season.[1] The Gophers went 8-13 during Mitchell’s one year tenure – with a 4-8 record in the Big Ten – which placed them in a tie for sixth place.[2] Mitchell graduated from Wisconsin-Stout in 1913.[3] Before becoming a coach for the Gophers, Mitchell had been the head coach at Minneapolis Central,[4] where one of his players was John Kundla — the Hall of Fame coach, who had led the Minneapolis Lakers to five NBA titles and would later be the Minnesota Gophers head coach.

References

  1. ^ "Former Golden Gopher Men's Basketball Coaches". GophersSports.com. http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=39209&SPID=3302&DB_OEM_ID=8400&ATCLID=1329789. 
  2. ^ http://www.gophersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=39209&SPID=3302&DB_OEM_ID=8400&ATCLID=1432293
  3. ^ "College Basketball Coaches". StatSheet.com. http://statsheet.com/mcb/coaches/weston-mitchell. Retrieved 2006-12-22. 
  4. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=UeIfU7OTx3YC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=weston+mitchell+gophers&source=web&ots=K3H_2_jpOe&sig=8iFXRddSXf1Gfv2-7CzKQufI6oE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result