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Henry Iba

Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)

Born
August 6, 1904
Died
January 15, 1993
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1904

About Henry Iba

Henry Payne “Hank” Iba was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College, now known as Northwest Missouri State University, from 1929 to 1933; the University of Colorado Boulder from 1933 to 1934; and the Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, known as Oklahoma A&M prior to 1957, from 1934 to 1970, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 751–340. He led Oklahoma A&M to consecutive NCAA basketball tournament titles, in 1945 and 1946. He was known as "the Iron Duke of Defense." Iba's Aggies became the first to win consecutive NCAA titles (1945 and 1946). A&M/State teams won 14 Missouri Valley titles and one Big Eight title, and won 655 games in 36 seasons. That year, the Cowboys joined (or rejoined, depending on the source) the Big Eight and promptly won the conference title, advancing all the way to the Elite Eight.

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The world when Henry Iba was born

Henry Iba was born in 1904. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1904

  • Best-selling book"The Crossing" – Winston Churchill

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst Olympic Games in the Americas (St. Louis)
  • Top headlineRusso-Japanese War begins
  • Technology milestoneNew York subway opens
  • World population~1.64B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population81.8M

1904 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Henry Iba's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19042026
Population81.8M341 million

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