Personal
- Received his B.S. degree from BYU in 1951
Career Highlights
- Scored 1,407 career points and was BYU's all-time leading scorer for 22 seasons (Kresimir Cosic broke the record in 1973)
- Held the BYU single-season record for points (619) for 27 seasons, broken by Danny Ainge in 1978
- Named fourth-team All-American by Converse and honorable mention by AP, Look, International Press, UPI
- Member of the 1951 NIT championship team
- Voted Most Valuable Player in the NIT tournament
- Received the 1951 BYU Basketball Most Valuable Player Trophy
- Was a three-time first-team all-conference performer
- Drafted in the first round by the New York Knicks
Post BYU Honors and Societies
Selected by the New York Knicks as the No. 15 overall pick in the 1951 NBA draft
He was again offered the position with the Knicks after his release from active duty, but instead chose to work in the banking industry
Chose to forego a career in the NBA to serve as an officer in the Navy during the Korean War
Selected by the U.S. Navy for the All-Navy Basketball team in 1952
Played for the Denver Bankers of the National AAU league while working for Denver Bank from 1955-57
Assistant BYU Basketball Coach for two seasons from 1961-63
Worked in the banking industry for 40 years
Vice President, Union Bank of California in Los Angeles from 1979-94
Inducted into the BYU Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1976
Stats
Year G FGM FTM P-AVE48-49 34 149 73 371-10.949-50 34 173 71 417-12.350-51 37 239 141 619-16.7Totals 105 561 285 1407-13.4