Show Basketball is His Business Jack Gardner Leads Redskins In Quest of Skyline Title Coach Jack Gardner begins his second year as head coach of the University of Utah basketball Last season his team placed fourth in the Skyline conference with a record of 7 won and 7 He has been coaching for 21 and is considered one of the outstanding cage mentors of the In September of this year Jack went to Europe to conduct basketball clinics for the United States Army under Athletic The invitation came through Major General William E. the Adjutant General of the United States Gardner described the trip as one of the finest experiences of his He and Wyoming Coach Ev Shelton conducted clinics at and Orleans and These clinics are an integral i part of the Army athletic gram and the selection of Coach Gardner to participate in them is a signal honor for the University of He graduated from the Uni-i of Southern California 1 where he majored in physical edu- cation and participated in baseball and captaining the basketball team his senior At the invitation of in he toured the Orient conducting coaching schools for players and In the spring of 1935 he toured Japan again this time to take over 35 all-star football players on a good-will trip and to introduce the sport In he coached at High and his 1934 team was UP for the Southern California The next four r years served as baseball and football lino coach at Modesto Junior His basketball teams won state championships three consecutive losing but three of their last 45 conference He stepped into the college ranks in 1939 when he went to Kansas State Jack coached there three seasons before entering the Naval Aviation physical training His first duty in the Navy was as athletic director and basketball coach at the Naval Air His basketball team was rated one of the top four service teams in the After the war Jack returned to Kansas and each of the succeeding six years found his team ranked among the top 10 squads in the Three of those years his teams won Big Seven championships and twice they went to the In his squad finished fourth in the playoffs and in 1951 went to the final game before losing to Kentucky for the national other three during this six-year Gardner's team finished runner-up in the |