Lauren Gale

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Lauren "Laddie" Gale (April 22, 1917—July 29, 1996) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player.

Gale, playing under Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Howard Hobson, led the University of Oregon in scoring in 1938 and 1939, earning all-Pacific Coast Conference honors in each season. In 1939, Gale led the Ducks to a national championship in the first-ever official Division I men's tournament.

After graduation, Gale played professionally in 1939 and 1940 for the Detroit Eagles of the National Basketball League.

For his stellar collegiate play, for being the first college player regularly to employ a one-handed shot, and for helping to popularize the sport of basketball in the American West, Gale was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1977; twelve years earlier, he had been inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.

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