(1895-10-11)October 11, 1895 Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Died
December 18, 1992(1992-12-18) (aged 97) Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S.
Playing career
1914–1917
NYU
1919–1920
NYU
Position(s)
Forward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Basketball
1923–1958
NYU
Football
1932–1933
NYU
Head coaching record
Overall
409–232 (basketball) 7–7–1 (football)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Helms championship (1935) Premo-Porretta championship (1935) 5× Metropolitan New York Conference (1934, 1938, 1946, 1948, 1957)
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1968 (profile)
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006
Howard Goodsell Cann (October 11, 1895 – December 18, 1992) was an American sportsman best known as the long-time men's basketball coach at New York University. He was also an Olympic shot putter and a college basketball and football player.
Howard Goodsell Cann (October 11, 1895 – December 18, 1992) was an American sportsman best known as the long-time men's basketball coach at New York University...
Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person who, at the age of 3, disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da...
national title with a 49–45 victory in the final game over NYU, coached by HowardCann. Bob Kurland of Oklahoma A&M was named the tournament's Most Outstanding...
basketball and won the Haggerty Award in his final year. His NYU coach, HowardCann, said of him: "He was in the gym practicing every spare minute. We had...
Isadore Blumenfeld (September 8, 1900 – June 21, 1981), commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Romanian-born Jewish-American organized crime enforcer based in Minneapolis...
tournament, led by the Helms Athletic Foundation Player of the Year, HowardCann, and the 19–1 NYU team of 1935 was named (retrospectively) by the Helms...
in October 1978. He was succeeded by the interim mayor, William Derwood Cann Jr., a businessman and a highly decorated lieutenant colonel in World War...
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William Bartlett Basil Bennett George Bihlman Everett Bradley Sol Butler HowardCann Robert J. Dunne Everett Ellis Frank Foss Kaufman Geist Harry Goelitz...
Camby (South Windsor) Walter Camp (New Britain) Dave Campo (Groton) HowardCann (Bridgeport) Jack Capuano (Kent) Jesse Carlson (New Britain) Julie Chu...
Championship New York Knicks Marv Albert Jerry Fleishman Rudy La Russo HowardCann Donnie Forman Julius Erving Vinnie Johnson The N.Y. Renaissance Harry...
29, 2008). "Howard faces paternity suit". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on August 29, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2012. McCann, Zach (September...
a faculty roster. The 1934 NYU yearbook lists Elmer Ellsworth Brown, HowardCann, and Theodore Distler amongst the faculty associated with the Society...
1933 college football season. In their second year under head coach HowardCann, the team compiled a 2–4–1 record. "1933 NYU Violets Schedule and Results"...
Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009. "Howard G. Cann". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. Archived...
Frank Gargan (1920–1921) Tom Thorp (1922–1924) Chick Meehan (1925–1931) HowardCann (1932–1933) Mal Stevens (1934–1941) No team (1942–1943) John J. Weinheimer...
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