Biographical details | |
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Born | 1900 South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
Died | April 26, 1958 East Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 57–58)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1918 | Illinois |
1920 | Illinois |
Position(s) | End |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1925–1927 | Kansas (assistant) |
1932 | Illinois (assistant) |
1934–1939 | Vermont |
1941 | Yale (assistant) |
Basketball | |
1922–1923 | Rochester |
1928–1933 | Illinois (assistant) |
1934–1940 | Vermont |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 55–48 (basketball) |
John Philip Sabo (1900 – April 26, 1958) was an American football and basketball coach. He was a football player at the University of Illinois in 1918 and 1920. He returned to his alma mater to serve as an assistant coach in both football and basketball.[1] While at Illinois he was the president of the Sigma Pi fraternity chapter and received his degree in 1922.[2][3] Sabo served as the head basketball coach at the University of Rochester from 1922 to 1923.[4] In 1934, he became the head basketball coach at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, a position he held for six seasons.[5] He also served as Vermont's head football coach from 1934 to 1939. He rounded out his career as an assistant football coach at Yale University.[6]
When the United States entered World War II, Sabo completed a training course at United States Naval Academy and was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy in 1942. He was assigned to oversee physical conditioning at one of the navy's training centers.[7]