John Bunn Bunn came to Kansas in 1917 as a three-sport athlete, earning four letters in football and three each in basketball and baseball. Upon graduation, he went on to coach basketball for 42 years at Stanford, Springfield (Mass.) College and Northern Colorado. He accumulated 321 wins and three Pacific Coast titles (1936-37-38).
A graduate of Humboldt (Kan.) High School, Bunn became the first athlete ever to earn 10 varsity letters from Kansas. After he retired as a coach, he was a member of the NCAA rules committee and served as the national rules editor and interpreter for nine seasons (1959-67). He served as chairman of the Hall of Fame committee of the NABC from 1949-61, and the first Executive Director of the Basketball Federation in 1965.
Bunn served as the freshman football, basketball and baseball coach at Kansas from 1924-27. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1964.
