HIGH SCHOOL:
Shelbyville

For over 21 years, one of Indiana's most highly respected basketball officials... worked over 1,000 games... officiated 5 straight state title games from 1936-1940... a great high school athlete at Shelbyville... received school's Paul Cross Award for scholar-athletes... played semi-pro and professional basketball 10 years... coached St. Joseph's High School, gaining national Catholic tourney berth his first year... a founding father of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, and its original fundraising chairman... Hall of Fame scholarship program named in his honor... in his hometown, a 7-foot plaque honors him as "Mr. Shelbyville"... received the coveted David Ben-Gurion Award from the state of Israel.