HIGH SCHOOL:
Middletown High School (1932)

COLLEGE:
Ball State (1936)

Lettered 3 seasons at Middletown High School, graduating in 1932, played a year at Ball State ...began a lengthy coaching career at tiny Straughn High School in '37 ... held that post 4 seasons, then served as that school's principal 6 years ... returned to Middletown in '47 to begin 20-year reign as the Cossacks' varsity basketball coach ... despite never coaching a school with more than 200 students, he won the New Castle sectional 5 times…his 1953 team was undefeated.