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John W. Hancock

American football player, track and field athlete, coach and athletics administrator

Field	Value
name	John W. Hancock
birth_date
birth_place	Marshfield, Wisconsin, U.S.
death_date	1993
player_sport1	Football
player_years2	1922–1924
player_team2	Iowa
player_positions	Tackle, end
coach_sport1	Football
coach_years2	1925–1926
coach_team2	Colorado Teachers (assistant)
coach_years3	1927–1929
coach_team3	Mississippi A&M
coach_years4	1930–1931
coach_team4	Marquette (assistant)
coach_years5	1932–1953
coach_team5	Colorado Teachers / Colorado State–Greeley
coach_sport6	Ice hockey
coach_years7	1930–1932
coach_team7	Marquette
coach_sport8	Basketball
coach_years9	1943–1945
coach_team9	Colorado State–Greeley
admin_years1	1932–1966
admin_team1	Colorado Teachers / Colorado State–Greeley
overall_record	83–90–9 (football)
1–25 (basketball)
bowl_record	0–1
championships	Football
2 RMC (1934, 1948)

1–25 (basketball) 2 RMC (1934, 1948)

First-team All-Big Ten (1924) John W. Hancock (April 13, 1901 – 1993) was an American football player, track and field athlete, coach of football, basketball, track, and wrestling, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at the University of Iowa.

Playing career

Hancock played football at the University of Iowa from 1922 to 1924. He played a significant role on Iowa’s 1922 Big Ten Conference championship team. As a senior, Hancock played both the tackle and end positions and kicked five field goals for the Hawkeyes. He was named all-Big Ten and a second team All-American after the 1924 season. He also won three letters in track with the Hawkeyes, capturing a title in the discus event at the 1925 Big Ten championships.

Coaching career

Hancock went into college coaching after graduation. He coached football at Mississippi State University for three years from 1927 to 1929. While working as an assistant at Marquette University, Hancock served as head coach of the ice hockey team for two seasons. He went to the University of Northern Colorado in 1932 and began a long coaching career. Hancock served as their athletic director for 34 years and coached football and track for decades as well.

Hancock was the head football coach at Northern Colorado for 20 seasons, from 1932 until 1953. His football coaching record at Northern Colorado was 75–78–5. In 1950, he led his team to the Bean Bowl.

Hancock is best known as a college wrestling coach at Northern Colorado. He originated the Mountain Intercollegiate Wrestling Association and proceeded to lead UNC to 30 consecutive conference championships. He served on the NCAA rules committee for 16 years and chaired it in 1962–63.

Hancock has been nicknamed “the father of Colorado high school wrestling”. He helped start the Colorado High School Wrestling Tournament in Greeley in 1936 by going door-to-door in the community to find families that could house the visiting high school wrestlers. Two of his sons became well-known wrestling coaches as well.

Honors

Hancock was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1998. The Butler–Hancock Sports Pavilion at the University of Northern Colorado was named in honor of Hancock and Pete Butler, baseball coach.

Head coaching record

Football

Ice hockey

References

Hawkeye Greats, By the Numbers, by Lyle Hammes and Neal Rozendaal, Page 133 ({{ISBN. 1-426-94303-2)
Hawkeye Legends, Lists, & Lore, by Mike Finn & Chad Leistikow, Page 40 ({{ISBN. 1-57167-178-1)
Hawkeye Greats, By the Numbers, by Lyle Hammes and Neal Rozendaal, Page 133 ({{ISBN. 1-426-94303-2)
link. (February 9, 2013)
Hawkeye Greats, By the Numbers, by Lyle Hammes and Neal Rozendaal, Page 133 ({{ISBN. 1-426-94303-2)
[http://www.nwhofcc.com/johnhancock.html Hancock bio] {{webarchive. link. (July 14, 2011)
[http://uncbears.com/sports/mbkb/spec-rel/102103aaa.html Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion] {{webarchive. link. (July 17, 2011)

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