Ed Kelleher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American college basketball coach
Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1894
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 19-Jul-1945
Profession: basketball coach
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Ed Kelleher
- Edward Ambrose Kelleher (June 29, 1894 – July 19, 1945) was an American college basketball head coach.
- He served as the head coach at St.
- John's University, Fordham University, and the United States Military Academy and amassed an overall career record of 257 wins and 105 losses.During his tenure at Fordham, Kelleher installed a fast-pace offense that prioritized high-scoring games modeled after the west coast style of play (the east coast played a slower, more defensive-oriented brand of basketball).
- He coached the famous "Wonder Fives", the teams between 1924 and 1929 who lost only nine total games.
- During a three-year stretch between 1926–27 and 1928–29, his Rams went 48–4.
- They were named "Eastern champions" all three years.
- Kelleher's other highlights as the Rams coach include coaching their first two All-Americans, Frank Dougherty and Bob Mullens, as well as guiding the school to its first-ever postseason tournament.
- In 1942–43, his last season at Fordham, he led the Rams to a fourth-place finish in the 1943 National Invitation Tournament.When Fordham temporarily dropped their basketball program due to World War II, Kelleher signed a short-term contract with the Military Academy to be their head coach.
- The plan was to return to Fordham once they re-commissioned a basketball team.
- In his first season at Army, his team finished the season with a 15–0 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.
- Then, in 1944–45, his Army squad went 14–1, giving his two-year head coaching tenure at Army an overall record of 29–1.
- He coached Dale Hall, a consensus All-American who later became the head men's basketball coach at New Hampshire and the head football coach at Army.After the 1944–45 season ended, Kelleher went to Europe as a civilian with the United States Armed Forces.
- He was killed on July 19, 1945 in Munich, Germany.
- He is buried at Lorraine American Cemetery in Saint-Avold, France.
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