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Former OSU player, coach Aubrey dies |
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Former OSU player, coach Aubrey dies
Stillwater - Sam Aubrey, a member of the 1946 Oklahoma State NCAA basketball team and the man who followed Henry Iba as the Cowboys head coach, died Monday afternoon in his home. He was 85.
Aubrey was a starting forward on the 1946 team that went 31 - 2 and won its second-consecutive national championship. All five starters of that squad, including Aubrey, were named first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference. He was the only sophomore to letter on the 1942 squad which finished with a 20 - 6 record and won the Missouri Valley Conference title.
Aubrey served as Oklahoma A&M's freshman coach for 10 years and was Iba's assistant from 1964 until taking over as head coach accumulating 62 wins and just 18 losses. He assumed the assistant coaching position in 1964 and took over as head coach at Oklahoma State upon Iba's retirement in 1970. He was head coach of the Cowboys from 1970-73.
Aubrey was born June 15, 1922, in Sapulpa and graduated from Tulsa Central High School in 1940. After lettering as a junior, he entered the U.S. Army in 1943. He was ranked a first lieutenant upon his discharge and was awarded a Purple Heart and Silver Star for service in the Arno-Po campaign in Italy. He was wounded on September 18, 1944, when a German bullet shattered his hip and he was told he would be in a wheelchair by the time he was 35.
Aubrey retired from OSU in 1983 after serving several years in various administrative roles within the athletic department.
Funeral arrangements will be handled by Strode Funeral Home in Stillwater and are pending. | | Return |
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