Q:Facts:   - sport: basketball , baseball , football    - death place: knoxville , tennessee    - player team: illinois    - death date: 20 december 1978    - coach team: kentucky miami university tennessee army florida tennessee    - player years: 1922 -- 1926    - coach years: 1927 1947 -- 1951 1951 -- 1960 1939 -- 1942 -- 1930 1930 -- 1938 1938 -- 1947      - birth date: 4 september 1901    - coach sport: basketball baseball    - name: john mauer    - overall record: basketball baseball : 24 -- 23 -lrb- 24 23 -rrb- : 344 -- 272 -lrb- 344 272 -rrb-    - birth place: aurora , illinois    - championships: sec 1941 , 1943 -rrb- -lrb- 1941 , 1943 -rrb- sec tournament -lrb-   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john mauer .
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john w. mauer -lrb- september 4 , 1901 -- december 20 , 1978 -rrb- was an american college basketball , baseball and football coach and multi-sport college athlete .during the course of his 36-year collegiate coaching career , mauer was the head basketball coach at the university of kentucky , miami university , the university of tennessee , the u.s. military academy , and the university of florida .