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Dec 13, 1902 Died on 13 Jul 1997 (aged 94)
American basketballplayer and coach, baseball coach
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About L. T. Underwood
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- "Bill" Underwood (December 13, 1902 – July 13, 1997) was a college basketball coach, the head coach at Gonzaga University for two seasons, from 1949 to 1951, with an overall record of 26–33 (.441).
- Underwood resigned as head basketball coach in March 1951, and was succeeded by Hank Anderson, who stayed for 21 years. Underwood was a high school basketball All-American in 1922 in Lexington, Kentucky.
- He earned three letters in basketball at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in 1924, 1925, and 1926.
- He coached at Transylvania University in Lexington in the early 1930s and moved west to Yakima, Washington, in 1938, where he resided when he was hired by Gonzaga in May 1949.
- He was also the Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball coach from 1949 to 1950. Underwood stayed in Spokane and was an administrator in the county school system; he became the Spokane chapter manager of the Red Cross in 1959.
- He later served with the organization in Japan.
- Underwood died in Bellevue in 1997 at age 94.
