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Bill Lienhard dead at 92
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2 years 9 months ago #28383
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
FYI, with Lienhard's death it looks as if there are only two surviving members of the 1952 champs.
Here's the team members and coaching staff:
Clyde Lovellette
Bob Kenney
Bill Hougland
Dean Kelley
Bill Lienhard
Charlie Hoag
John Keller
B.H. Born
Bill Heitholt
Larry Davenport
Dean Smith
Everett Dye
LaVannes Squires
Wes Johnson
Jerry Alberts
Al Kelley
Dean Wells
Phog Allen HC
Dick Harp AC
Dean Nesmith Trainer
Wayne Louderback Manager
1952 NCAA Champions
University of Kansas 1952 NCAA Basketball Champions Team Photo:
Front Row (left to right) Charles Hoag, LaVannes Squires, Allen Kelley, Dean Smith, Dean Kelley.
Middle Row (left to right): John Keller, Bill Lienhard, B.H. Born, Dr. F.C. "Phog " Allen (head coach), Clyde Lovellette, Bill Hougland.
Back row (left to right): Dean Nesmith (trainer) Everett Dye, Jerry Alberts, Bill Heitholt, Bob Kenney, Larry Davenport, Dick Harp (assistant coach), Wayne Louderback (manager).
Not shown: Wes Johnson, Dean Wells
(Photo by Kansas/Collegiate Images/Getty Images.)
After a pretty thorough internet search the best I can come up with regarding still living team members is this...
Bill Heitholt
Everett Dye
I can find nothing to indicate these two gents have passed.
Everyone else, from Head Coach Phog down to team manager Wayne Louderback, has died.
I cannot find actual obits for Wes Johnson or Jerry Alberts, but I did find a 2007 Bill Mayer story that noted they were gone.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2007/feb/16/mayer_cu_did_ku_favor_52/
Does anyone have any info on Heitholt and/or Dye?
Or for that matter the birth & death data on Johnson or Alberts?
Thanks!
Here's the team members and coaching staff:
Clyde Lovellette
Bob Kenney
Bill Hougland
Dean Kelley
Bill Lienhard
Charlie Hoag
John Keller
B.H. Born
Bill Heitholt
Larry Davenport
Dean Smith
Everett Dye
LaVannes Squires
Wes Johnson
Jerry Alberts
Al Kelley
Dean Wells
Phog Allen HC
Dick Harp AC
Dean Nesmith Trainer
Wayne Louderback Manager
1952 NCAA Champions
University of Kansas 1952 NCAA Basketball Champions Team Photo:
Front Row (left to right) Charles Hoag, LaVannes Squires, Allen Kelley, Dean Smith, Dean Kelley.
Middle Row (left to right): John Keller, Bill Lienhard, B.H. Born, Dr. F.C. "Phog " Allen (head coach), Clyde Lovellette, Bill Hougland.
Back row (left to right): Dean Nesmith (trainer) Everett Dye, Jerry Alberts, Bill Heitholt, Bob Kenney, Larry Davenport, Dick Harp (assistant coach), Wayne Louderback (manager).
Not shown: Wes Johnson, Dean Wells
(Photo by Kansas/Collegiate Images/Getty Images.)
After a pretty thorough internet search the best I can come up with regarding still living team members is this...
Bill Heitholt
Everett Dye
I can find nothing to indicate these two gents have passed.
Everyone else, from Head Coach Phog down to team manager Wayne Louderback, has died.
I cannot find actual obits for Wes Johnson or Jerry Alberts, but I did find a 2007 Bill Mayer story that noted they were gone.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2007/feb/16/mayer_cu_did_ku_favor_52/
Does anyone have any info on Heitholt and/or Dye?
Or for that matter the birth & death data on Johnson or Alberts?
Thanks!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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