Bertha Teague
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Bertha Frank Teague (born September 17, 1906 in Carthage, Missouri; died June 13, 1991) was an American basketball coach. She coached the Byng High School team in Ada, Oklahoma for 42 years (from 1927 to 1969) with a career record of 1,157-115 (.910 winning percentage). Her teams won eight Oklahoma state championships. They won 98 consecutive games from 1936 to 1939. She was named Coach of the Decade for 1930s, 1940s and 1970s by the Jim Thorpe Athletic Awards Committee in 1974. She was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985 and in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Bertha Teague never played the game she so successfully mastered. An authority on girl's basketball, Teague authored, Basketball for Girls in 1962, a book that outlined her philosophy and coaching methods. Teague, who founded the first girl's basketball clinic and camp in the Southwest, was a dignified coach who stressed individual confidence and team conditioning. She was named Teacher of the Year in 1964 and the National Basketball Committee's Coach of the Year in 1966.
In her last game as a coach, her team won the state championship, 46-45. The classy Teague was known as "Mrs. Basketball of Oklahoma."
Teague, along with Senda Berenson Abbott and Margaret Wadeone, were the first women inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. She was also one of the inaugural class of inductees into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
