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Back to EpisodesLon Jourdet: The Face of Early Quaker Basket Ball
Episode 444
Published 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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BBB:LHWS #052-1 Lon Jourdet...
...was an All-American footballer who also excelled at basketball. He spent 23 years as coach at Penn and captured more than 200 victories, but he left in 1943 with a bitter taste in his mouth for the University, which has come close to forgetting him. He ended his own life in 1959.