Uncommon passport-style participant's identification booklet issued to American basketball coach Howard Hobson for the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics, 3 x 4.5, featuring the emblem of the Games on the front. Issued as "No. 06673," the booklet has Hobson's portrait and signature inside, and is filled out in type with his nationality, address, and profession ( "Basketball Coach—Yale Univ."). In fine condition.
Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 1965, Howard Hobson served as the head basketball coach at Southern Oregon University from 1932 to 1935, at the University of Oregon from 1935 to 1944 and again from 1945 to 1947, and at Yale University from 1947 to 1956, compiling a career college basketball record of 401-257. Hobson's 1938-39 Oregon basketball team won the inaugural NCAA basketball tournament. He was also a member of the U.S. Olympic Basketball Committee for twelve years.
