Frank Ward (basketball)

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Frank Ward
College	Montana State
Conference	Rocky Mountain
Sport	Basketball
Position	Center
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Nationality	American
Awards
2× NCAA All-American (1929, 1930)
Championships
3× Rocky Mountain Conference (1928–30) 1× National Championship (1929)

Frank Ward was an American basketball player who is best known for playing on the dominant teams of Montana State in the late 1920s. Ward, a 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) center, played for coach G. Ott Romney, a man credited with implementing the fast break style of play in basketball. Montana State won three conference championships during Ward's tenure, and in 1928–29 they finished the season with a 35–2 record. They were declared national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Ward was a two-time NCAA All-American, including a consensus selection in 1930.

References

"Consensus All-America Teams". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
"Montana Bobcats Strong at Start of 1929 Season". Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection. 1929. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
Gould, Alan J. (December 25, 1929), "Basketball Teams Beginning to Show Which are Champions", The Miami News: 11, retrieved February 5, 2011
"The Golden Bobcats". Montana State University. Retrieved February 5, 2011.

v t e 1930 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans

Chuck Hyatt Branch McCracken Charles Murphy Cat Thompson Frank Ward John Wooden

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Name	Ward, Frank
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Short description	American college basketball player for Montana State University in the late 1920s and early 1930s
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