John Danza Plant (November 19, 1877 – February 19, 1954)[1] was an athletic coach at Bucknell University from 1926 to 1947.
His basketball teams won six New Jersey Prep School Championships and he was a successful football coach.
Among his players were John J. McCloy, Peddie Class of 1912, who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II and as United States High Commissioner for Germany and George Murphy, Class of 1920, later a Hollywood actor and Senator from California.
(Evan Thomas The Wise Men) Too old to volunteer for the First World War, Plant joined the YMCA and ran athletic competitions for American Doughboys stationed in France.
Plant came to Bucknell University in 1926, coaching basketball (1926–1932), track and field (1926–1947), and boxing (co-coach, 1928–1930).