A 4-year starter at Delphi High School ... a 3-time all-sectional and all-regional performer ... as a senior in 1930, his 4-minute, one-man dribbling stall gave Delphi a return trip to state tourney ... played on 2 Big 10 championships teams at Purdue University ... one of those years he unknowingly played with a broken leg ... played on 2 Big 10 football champions ... in his first intercollegiate game, he ran 78 yards for a touchdown the first time he carried the ball and scored 3 touchdowns ... AD, coach at West Lafayette ... coached and managed Sheboygan, Wis., Redskins professional basketball team ... 2 years later, in '48, became commissioner of the National Basketball League ... after merger with BAA, became manager and coach of Anderson Duffy Packers, reaching NBA championship game ... in '51, organized and was vice president and coach of Milwaukee Hawks ... first the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Foundation.