All-sectional and all-regional guard at Indianapolis Manual ... won 10 letters in 4 sports ... All-State football center .. state shot-put champion .. captained basketball, football and track teams ... 10 letters at Butler ... played AAU basketball with South Side Turners ... went to national finals twice, semifinals once ... 25 yeas as a high school basketball official ... worked 19 years as a professional official, working the first game ever played in the National Basketball Association ... officiated in 6 championship series  ... also worked many college games ... coached many years in high school and college began at Cicero High School, with 70-5 record in 3 years ... in county tourney, Cicero held 2 opponents without a field goal ... at St. Paul, his 5-year record was 118-9 ... continued successful all-sports coaching career at Lowell, Southport, Manual and Butler University ... also a member of the Indiana Football Hall of Fame and Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame.