Fred Pralle

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Fred Pralle
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Personal information
Born	(1916-04-10)April 10, 1916 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	November 6, 1998(1998-11-06) (aged 82) Gainesville, Florida
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Career information
High school	St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)
College	Kansas (1935–1938)
Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (1938) 3× All-Big Six selection (1936–1938) AAU All-American (1944) 3× AAU National Championships Jersey retired by University of Kansas

Fred J. Pralle (April 10, 1916 – November 6, 1998) was an American college basketball standout at the University of Kansas from 1935–36 to 1937–38. In his three varsity seasons, Kansas won all three Big Six Conference regular season championships. Pralle led the Jayhawks in scoring in each of his last two seasons, and as a senior he also led the conference in scoring with a 10.7 points per game average. He was twice named an NCAA All-American (1937, 1938), and in 1938 he became Kansas' first ever play to be honored as a consensus All-American.

After his collegiate career, Pralle played in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) with the national AAU power Phillips 66ers. During his seven-year career with the team, the 66ers won three national championships (1940, 1943–44) and were runners-up in two others (1939, 1942). Pralle sustained a knee injury just before the 1945 AAU Tournament derailed his basketball career. He eventually played baseball in the Kansas–Oklahoma–Missouri League with the Bartlesville Oilers before quitting professional sports.

Pralle died on November 6, 1998.^[1]

References

↑ "Obituaries". The Florida Times-Union. November 9, 1998. Retrieved January 2, 2014.

"Fred Pralle". hoopszone.net. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
"Fred Pralle Minor League Statistics". baseball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
"1946 Bartlesville Oilers Statistics". baseball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 22, 2011.

v t e 1938 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans

Meyer Bloom Hank Luisetti John Moir Paul Nowak Fred Pralle Jewell Young

v t e 1944 Amateur Athletic Union Men's Basketball All-Americans

Ed Beisser Gale Bishop Shorty Carpenter Ace Gruenig George Hamburg Chuck Hyatt Bob Marsh Jimmy McNatt Fred Pralle Jules Rivlin

Persondata
Name	Pralle, Fred
Alternative names
Short description	American college basketball player in the 1930s
Date of birth	April 10, 1916
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri
Date of death	November 6, 1998
Place of death	Gainesville, Florida

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