Hobson, Howard A. ("Hobby")
Basketball
b. July 4, 1903, Portland, OR
d. June 9, 1991
The first coach to win major conference championships on both coasts, Hobson was captain of the basketball and baseball teams at the University of Oregon for two years. After coaching high school basketball in Oregon and Washington for two years, he became head coach at Southern Oregon College in 1928.
He returned to his alma mater in 1935 and remained there through the 1946/47 season. Oregon won the first NCAA tournament under Hobson in 1939 and claimed three straight Pacific Coast Conference championships, 1937-39.
In 1948, he became basketball coach at Yale, where he won or tied for five Big Three championships in nine season. Hobson left coaching after the 1955/56 season with a record of 495 wins and 291 losses.