John Wooden
Coach John Wooden on coercing Bill Walton to get a haircut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPu3fnbmvo?rel=0

Coach John Wooden and former UCLA basketball players recall the time Wooden forced player Bill Walton to get a haircut to continue playing on the team and they explain the Coach's strict grooming rules. Wooden was an American basketball player and head coach at UCLA where he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, seven of them in a row. His team also on a record 88 consecutive games before losing to Notre Dame on January 19, 1974  and he was named national coach of the year six times before his death on June 4, 2010.

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