Isadore Anderson

Axel Isadore Anderson (June 20, 1880 – September 6, 1961) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and wrestling, and anesthesiologist.

He was the first head basketball coach at the University of Missouri, serving one season, in 1906–07.

His 1906–07 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team twice beat the Kansas Jayhawks, coached by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.

Anderson played college football at Missouri, lettering in 1901 and 1903, before graduating in 1904.

Anderson worked as an anesthesiologist at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri from 1910 until his retirement in 1947.