Gustave Kenneth Tebell (September 6, 1897 – May 28, 1969) was an
American football
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,
basketball
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, and
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player, coach, and college athletics administrator. From 1925 to 1929, he coached football at
North Carolina State University
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, where he compiled a 21–25–2 record. From 1934 to 1936, he coached at the
University of Virginia
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, where he compiled a 6–18–4 record. From 1930 to 1951, he served as the head men's basketball coach at Virginia, achieving his first championship in just his second year. During that tenure, he compiled a 240–190 record, including a NIT berth in 1941. His 240 wins rank fourth in school history. In 1951 he became athletic director. Tebell also coached baseball at Virginia from 1941 to 1942 and from 1944 to 1955, missing the 1943 season due to military service.
Tebell played football and basketball at the
University of Wisconsin
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. As an
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on the
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team, he was selected a second-team All-American by the ''New York Times''. After graduating, he played for the
Columbus Tigers of the
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(NFL) in
1923
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and
1924
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and coached three of the team's games in 1923.
Tebell employed the “Meanwell System” on offense, named for its creator, Tebell's coach at Wisconsin. It featured a double-post alignment with constant cuts, pivots and short passes, and also pioneered the screen.
[Cramer, Gary “Cavaliers! A Pictorial History of UVA Basketball”, Spring House Publ., 1983.]
The University of Virginia honors Tebell by giving an annual award in his name, the Gus Tebell Memorial Award, which is granted each year to the graduating male student-athlete with the highest grade point average through his four years at the university.
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1897 births
1969 deaths
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