`BIGHOUSE' GAINES TO RETIRE

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 19, 1993                   TAG: 9302190196
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short
`BIGHOUSE' GAINES TO RETIRE
Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines, with more college basketball victories than any other coach except Adolph Rupp, will retire at the end of the season after 47 years at Winston-Salem State.
Gaines, who spent his entire coaching career at Winston-Salem, has a record of 828-440, a .652 winning percentage. Rupp, the great Kentucky coach, had 875 wins over 41 seasons.
"Bighouse is one of the finest coaches ever," said North Carolina coach Dean Smith, who recorded his 761st win Wednesday night. "Unfortunately, he didn't get his just due because of the racial inequality in our country. . . . He is the type of person this profession needs."
Gaines, 69, who posted only six losing seasons, officially retires as coach and professor of physical education on June 30.
"It's been a great 47 years," Gaines said. "After talking it over with my family, they thought it would be in my best interests to relieve myself of some of the responsibilities that I now have."
Gaines is already in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame and has served as president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
Gaines won 20 or more games 18 times during his career, with his best season in 1967 when the Rams went 31-1 and became the first historically black school to win an NCAA title.
The 1967 squad was led by future NBA Hall of Famer Earl "The Pearl" Monroe. Gaines became the first black coach to receive the NCAA College Division Coach of the Year award that season.
Gaines won 11 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles, his first coming in 1953 and his last in 1977.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB