Gus Broberg

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Gustave Broberg
College	Dartmouth
Conference	Ivy League
Sport	Basketball
Position	Forward
Nickname	Gus
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Nationality	American
Born	June 16, 1920 Connecticut
Died	November 23, 2001 (aged 81) Palm Beach, Florida
High school	Torrington HS
Awards
3× NCAA All-American 3× Ivy League scoring champion

Gustave Theodore "Gus" Broberg, Jr. (June 16, 1920 – November 23, 2001) was a college basketball standout, World War II pilot, lawyer and judge. An American, Broberg played basketball as a 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) forward at Dartmouth College from 1938 to 1941, where he became the first Ivy League player to lead the conference in scoring for three straight seasons; he scored 13.8 points per game (ppg) as a sophomore, 14.5 ppg as a junior and 14.9 ppg as a senior. Broberg was a Helms Foundation First Team All-American as a sophomore in 1938–39, and then a two-time Consensus First Team All-American in 1940 and 1941.

Broberg played minor league baseball for a brief stint after he graduated from college, but then enlisted in the United States Marine Corps to serve as a pilot in World War II. He lost his right arm when his plane crashed, earning him a Purple Heart. He later life he became a lawyer and judge in Florida after earning his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1948.

Gus Broberg was the father of former Major League Baseball pitcher Pete Broberg, and both were inducted into the Palm Beach Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.

References

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v t e 1940 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans

First Team	Gus Broberg John Dick George Glamack Bill Hapac Ralph Vaughn

Second Team	Jack Harvey Marvin Huffman Jimmy McNatt Jesse Renick

v t e 1941 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans

First Team	John Adams Gus Broberg Howard Engleman Gene Englund George Glamack

Second Team	Frank Baumholtz Bob Kinney Paul Lindemann Stan Modzelewski Ossie Schectman

Persondata
Name	Broberg, Gus
Alternative names
Short description	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Date of birth	June 16, 1920
Place of birth	Connecticut
Date of death	November 23, 2001
Place of death	Palm Beach, Florida

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