Dan Pippin

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Dan Pippin

Pippin (left) at the University of Missouri in 1949 with sister Nancy

Guard / Forward

Personal information

Born

October 20, 1926
St. Louis, Missouri

Died

April 1, 1965 (aged 38)
Mexico, Missouri

Nationality

American

Listed height

6 ft 1 in (185 cm)

Listed weight

170 lb (77 kg)

Career information

High school

Waynesville (Waynesville, Missouri)

College

Missouri (1943–1948)

Career highlights and awards

2x first team All-Big Six Conference (1944, 1947)
2x AAU All-American (1952–1953)

Medals

Men's basketball
Gold	1952 Helsinki	Team competition

Dan Luther Pippin (October 20, 1926 – April 1, 1965) was farmboy from Waynesville, Missouri who became an All-Big 6 basketball player at the University of Missouri. He later captained the 1952 United States Olympic team that won the gold medal in Helsinki. He played all eight games.

After Pippin graduated from the University of Missouri he went to work for the Caterpillar Tractor Company in Peoria, Illinois, and played for the National Industrial Basketball League team it sponsored, the Peoria Cats. Pippin later moved to New Mexico where he enaged in the insurance business before returning to his native Missouri.

Pippin had three children, Dru, a veterinarian now living in Missouri, DeeAnn, living in Hartsburg, and David, who died in 2005 in Houston.

External links

v t e United States squad – 1952 Summer Olympics – Gold medal

4 Bontemps 5 Freiberger 6 Glasgow 7 Hoag 8 Hougland 9 Keller 10 Kelley 11 Kenney 12 Kurland 13 McCabe 14 Lienhard 15 Lovellette 16 Pippin 17 Williams Coach: Womble

v t e 1952 Amateur Athletic Union Men's Basketball All-Americans

Billy Donovan Bryce Heffley Bob Kurland Frank McCabe Dan Pippin Ken Pryor Jack Stone Bobby Wallace Bus Whitehead Howie Williams

v t e 1953 Amateur Athletic Union Men's Basketball All-Americans

Glen Anderson John Arndt Ron Bontemps Hugh Faulkner Jim Hoverder Frank McCabe Chet Noe Dan Pippin Howie Williams George Yardley

Persondata
Name	Pippin, Dan
Alternative names
Short description	Basketball player
Date of birth	October 20, 1926
Place of birth
Date of death	April 1, 1965
Place of death

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