Researching Forrest Twogood
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 12 people with the Twogood surname? In that year Twogood was ranked number 3567 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Forrest means "Of the Woods, Forest" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Forrest Twogood on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Forrest Twogood and the Twogood Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 10 people with the Twogood surname in the UK? Twogood is now ranked number 4032 for popularity in the UK. |
Twogood Family History Databases
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Forrest Twogood
Forrest Floyd "Twogie" Twogood (April 29, 1907 – April 26, 1972) was a minor league baseball player, college basketball and baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He is best known as the head basketball coach at the University of Southern California for 16 seasons, from 1950 to 1966.
Born in Kingsley, Iowa, Twogood was three-sport athlete at Central High School in Sioux City, then played basketball and baseball at the University of Iowa, before being signed by Branch Rickey's St. Louis Cardinals. A left-handed pitcher, he played four seasons of minor league baseball while spending his winters in Los Angeles as an assistant basketball coach at USC under Sam Barry, his coach at Iowa, from 1929 to 1936.
After arm trouble led to his retirement from baseball in 1934, Twogood was the head coach at the University of Idaho in Moscow from 1936 to 1941, (and also the Vandals' baseball coach (1937–41)), and the University of San Francisco for a season During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy, then worked in the private sector and also as supervisor of officials in the Pacific Coast Conference.
Twogood returned to USC as an assistant under Barry in 1949, and when Barry died of a heart attack in September 1950, Twogood was promoted to head coach, and served for 16 seasons. In 22 seasons as a head coach, he compiled a record, with two conference championships and three NCAA tournament appearances, including the Final Four in 1954. After stepping down from coaching in 1966, Twogood was an assistant athletic director at USC. The auditorium at the university's Heritage Hall is named in his honor; its bronze plaque reads:
Diagnosed with inoperable lymph gland cancer in late 1971, Twogood died in April 1972 at Glendale Memorial Hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, a few days shy of his 65th birthday. He left behind his beloved wife Eleanor, sisters Blanche and Lucille, and several nieces and nephews Dick Evans and David Stockman, US Naval Academy 1951 Col (Ret) USAF and fighter pilot, and wife Lucia, as well as David and Lucia's children Sidne Ann and Bill Stockman, who loved him dearly
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