John Plant
Basketball Coach
– 1955
Who was John Plant?
John D. Plant was an athletic coach at Bucknell University from 1926 to 1947, including being the head basketball coach from 1926 to 1932.
Plant was originally from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. As a child, he served as a laborer in the pottery mills of Trenton, New Jersey. He often recalled that he and his brother were given cigarettes to smoke in order to keep his lungs clear of dust. In his teens and twenties, he played basketball and football in early professional and amateur leagues. He attended the Peddie School, then a prep school affiliated with the Northern Baptist Convention, located in Hightstown, New Jersey starting in the early years of the 20th century and at some point began coaching there. His basketball teams won six New Jersey Prep School Championships and he was a successful football coach. Among his players were John J. McCloy, Peddie Class of 1912, who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War 2 and as United States High Commissioner for Germany and George Murphy, Class of 1920, later a Hollywood actor and Senator from California.
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