Walt McPherson

Walter James McPherson (December 5, 1916 – January 12, 2013) was an American basketball coach and was regarded as one of the best at San Jose State University, and former West Coast Athletic Conference commissioner. McPherson graduated from San Jose State in 1939 and played as a fullback through 1936 and 1938 trained by Dudley DeGroot. He became a basketball coach and assistant football coach, he also managed to get his basketball team in the NCAA Tournament which was the team's first time in the tournament. He also taught Carroll Williams and Billy Wilson who also started their own sport careers. McPherson retired from coaching in 1960.[2]

Walt McPherson
Biographical details
Born(1916-12-05)December 5, 1916
San Jose, California
DiedJanuary 12, 2013(2013-01-12) (aged 96)
Santa Rosa, California
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1940–1942San Jose State
1945–1960San Jose State
Head coaching record
Overall264–208 (.559)[1]

Personal life

McPherson was involved in World War II and became a lieutenant. He became a member of San Jose Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. McPherson died in 2013 in Santa Rosa, California.[2][3][4] He is survived by two children, including poet and University of California, Davis professor Sandra McPherson.[3][5]

Head coaching record
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
San Jose State Spartans (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (1940–1942)
1940–41 San Jose State 19-8
1941–42 San Jose State 13-20
San Jose State Spartans (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (1945–1950)
1945–46 San Jose State 17-14
1946–47 San Jose State 18-9
1947–48 San Jose State 23-9
1948–49 San Jose State 22-13
1949–50 San Jose State 21-7
San Jose State Spartans (Independent) (1950–1952)
1950–51 San Jose State 18-12NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1951–52 San Jose State 15-10
San Jose State Spartans (West Coast Conference) (1952–1960)
1952–53 San Jose State 15-84-4T-3rd
1953–54 San Jose State 12-156-63rd
1954–55 San Jose State 16-97-52nd
1955–56 San Jose State 15-108-6T-4th
1956–57 San Jose State 13-127-7T-4th
1957–58 San Jose State 13-135-7T-4th
1958–59 San Jose State 5-191-117th
1959–60 San Jose State 6-192-10T-6th
San Jose State: 261–207 (.558)40–56 (.417)
Total:261–207 (.558)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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gollark: - `make`/`new` are basically magic- `range` is magic too - what it does depends on the number of return values you use, or something. Also, IIRC user-defined types can't implement it- Generics are available for all of, what, three builtin types? Maps, slices and channels, if I remember right.- `select` also only works with the built-in channels- Constants: they can only be something like four types, and what even is `iota` doing- The multiple return values can't be used as tuples or anything. You can, as far as I'm aware, only return two (or, well, more than one) things at once, or bind two returns to two variables, nothing else.- no operator overloading- it *kind of* has exceptions (panic/recover), presumably because they realized not having any would be very annoying, but they're not very usable- whether reading from a channel is blocking also depends how many return values you use because of course
gollark: What, you mean no it doesn't have weird special cases everywhere?
gollark: It pretends to be "simple", but it isn't because there are bizarre special cases everywhere to make stuff appear to work.
gollark: So of course, lol no generics.

References
  2. "San Jose State legend Walt McPherson (1916-2013)". San Jose State Athletics. January 15, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  3. "Walter McPherson". San Jose Mercury News. January 17, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  5. Jessop, Annet (2002), Cucinella, Catherine (ed.), "Sandra McPherson (1943- )", Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-to-Z Guide, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, p. 233, ISBN 0313317836
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