High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Justin McCarthy "Sam" Barry was an American collegiate athletic coach who achieved significant accomplishments in three major sports. He remains one of only three coaches to lead teams to both the Final Four and the College World Series. Barry was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. After starring in basketball, baseball and football while a student at high school in Madison, Wisconsin, he continued his success at Lawrence College, later completing his degree at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. He returned to Madison High School to begin his coaching career, and then proceeded to become athletic director at Knox College in Illinois from 1918 to 1922, where he also served as coach of football, basketball, baseball and track.