Bob Polk
James Robert Bob Polk is a retired basketball coach in American college basketball. Polk coached the Vanderbilt Commodores, the Trinity Tigers, the Saint Louis Billikens and Rice University. He began his college coaching career as an assistant coach a Georgia Tech during World War II. His first coaching job was at his high school alma mater Tell City High, in Tell City, Indiana.
Polk was born in Tell City, Indiana and began to play basketball in the 4th grade. After high school, Polk attended the University of Evansville from 1936 to 1939. He worked parttime at several jobs, including sweeping out the University Presidents office, running a movie projector, bank teller and working in a tomato canning factory. to help pay his college expenses. He was a guard on the basketball team under coach Bill Slyker from 1935 to 1936 to 193839.
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