Lynn St. John

Lynn St. John
Biographical details

Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Born	(1876-11-18)November 18, 1876 Union City, Pennsylvania
Died	September 30, 1950(1950-09-30) (aged 73) Columbus, Ohio
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1902–1905	Wooster
1909–1911	Ohio Wesleyan
Basketball
1902–1909	Wooster
1910–1912	Ohio Wesleyan
1911–1919	Ohio State
Baseball
1910–1912	Ohio Wesleyan
1913–1928	Ohio State
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1912–1947	Ohio State
Head coaching record
Overall	31–24–2 (football) 146–112 (basketball) 217–118–9 (baseball)

Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1962 (profile)
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006

Lynn Wilbur "The Saint" St. John (November 18, 1876 – September 30, 1950) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. The Union City, Pennsylvania native was the head basketball coach at Ohio State University from 1911 to 1919, and served as the school's second athletic director, a position he held for 33 years. He also served on the NCAA Rules Committee along with James Naismith from 1912 to 1937). In 1956, Ohio State built a new basketball arena and named it St. John Arena after him. In 1962, he was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor.

References

Wooster Fighting Scots head football coaches

Kinley McMillan (1889–1890)
No team (1891–1900)
E. Sedgewick (1901)
Lynn St. John (1902–1905)
Ernest Skeel (1906–1907)
Frank Longman (1908)
W. E. Johnston (1909–1910)
H. B. Lloyd (1911–1912)
C. C. Childs (1913)
A. Cunningham (1914)
L. C. Boles (1915–1925)
Art Murray (1926)
L. C. Boles (1927–1939)
John Swigart (1941–1948)
Philip L. Shipe (1949–1965)
Jack Lengyel (1966–1970)
Pat O'Brien (1971–1974)
Don Hunsinger (1975–1976)
Tom Hollman (1977–1980)
Jim Kapp (1981–1984)
Bob Tucker (1985–1994)
Jim Barnes (1995–1999)
Mike Schmitz (2000–2012)
Frank Colaprete (2013– )

Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops head football coaches

No coach (1890–1891)
Lilly (1892)
No coach (1893)
George Dygert (1894)
Scott & Farrar (1895)
Dick (1896)
Fielding H. Yost (1897)
C. Sumner Welch (1898)
Ritchie (1899)
G. A. Teller (1900)
Sam Boyle (1901–1902)
Victor M. Place (1903–1905)
Branch Rickey (1906–1908)
Lynn St. John (1909–1911)
M. B. Banks (1912)
Roy Thomas (1913)
Frederick Dixon (1914–1915)
Charles McCoy (1916–1917)
Harry W. Ewing (1918–1920)
George Gauthier (1921–1946)
Glenn Fraser (1947–1963)
Jack Fouts (1964–1983)
Steve Farkasovsky (1984–1986)
Mike Hollway (1987–2011)
Tom Watts (2012– )

Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball head coaches

Unknown (1898–1901)
No team (1901–1902)
D. C. Huddleson (1902–1904)
Unknown (1904–1908)
Tom Kibler (1908–1910)
Unknown (1910–1911)
Lynn St. John (1911–1919)
George Trautman (1919–1922)
Harold Olsen (1922–1946)
Tippy Dye (1946–1950)
Floyd Stahl (1950–1958)
Fred Taylor (1958–1976)
Eldon Miller (1976–1986)
Gary Williams (1986–1989)
Randy Ayers (1989–1997)
Jim O'Brien (1997–2004)
Thad Matta (2004– )

Ohio State Buckeyes head baseball coaches

Unknown (1881–1886)
No team (1887)
Unknown (1888–1900)
Jack Reed (1901–1902)
C. W. Dickerson (1903)
Unknown (1904–1907)
No team (1908)
Unknown (1909)
No team (1910)
Unknown (1911–1912)
Lynn St. John (1913–1928)
Wayne Wright (1929–1932)
Floyd Stahl (1933–1938)
Fred Mackey (1939–1944)
Lowell Wrigley (1945–1946)
Floyd Stahl (1947–1950)
Marty Karow (1951–1975)
Richard Finn (1976–1987)
Bob Todd (1988–2010)
Greg Beals (2011– )

Ohio State Buckeyes athletic directors

Lynn St. John (1912–1947) Dick Larkins (1947–1971) J. Edward Weaver (1971–1977) Hugh Hindman (1977–1984) Rick Bay (1984–1987) James Jones (1988–1994) Andy Geiger (1994–2005) Gene Smith (2005– )

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1962

Players	Jack McCracken Harlan Page Barney Sedran John Thompson

Contributors	Frank Morgenweck Lynn St. John

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

Coaches (100)

Alexeeva Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Calipari Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gaze Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hatchell Heinsohn Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Izzo Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Leonard Lewis Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire McLendon Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nelson Nikolić Novosel Olson Pitino Ramsay Richardson Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Tarkanian Taylor Teague Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens G. Williams R. Williams Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players Italics indicates those who are also inducted as contributors.

Contributors (67)

Abbott Barksdale Bee Biasone H. Brown W. Brown Bunn Buss Clifton Colangelo Cooper Davidson Douglas Duer Embry Fagan Fisher Fleisher Gavitt Gottlieb Granik Gulick Harrison Hearn Henderson Hepp Hickox Hinkle Irish Jones Kennedy Knight Lemon Liston Lloyd McLendon Mokray Morgan Morgenweck Naismith Newell Newton J. O'Brien L. O'Brien Olsen Podoloff Porter Raveling Reid Reinsdorf Ripley Sanders Saperstein Schabinger St. John Stagg Stanković Steitz Stern Taylor Tower Trester Vitale Wells Wilke Winter Zollner

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches.

Players (174)

Guards	Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cooper-Dyke Cousy Dampier Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Guerin Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Isaacs Iverson Jeannette D. Johnson E. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Marčiulionis Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers R. Miller Monroe Murphy Page Payton Petrović Phillip Posey Richmond Robertson Rodgers Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Staley Steinmetz Stockton Swoopes Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West J. White Wilkens Woodard Wooden

Forwards	Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley R. Brown Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Haywood Heinsohn Howell G. Johnson King Lucas Luisetti K. Malone McClain B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen C. Miller Mullin Pettit Pippen Pollard Ramsey Rodman Schayes E. Schmidt O. Schmidt Stokes Thompson Twyman Walker N. White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Beaty Bellamy Chamberlain Ćosić Cowens Crawford Daniels DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel W. Johnson Johnston Krause Kurland Lanier Leslie Lovellette Lapchick Macauley M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Mourning Murphy Mutombo Olajuwon O'Neal Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton Yao

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

Referees (16)

Bavetta Enright Garretson Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nichols Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh

Teams (10)

1960 United States Olympic Team 1992 United States Olympic Team All American Red Heads Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters Immaculata College New York Renaissance Original Celtics Texas Western

Awards

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