Lon Jourdet: The Face of Early Quaker Basket Ball

16/11/2025 20 min Episodio 444
Lon Jourdet: The Face of Early Quaker Basket Ball

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Lon Jourdet was an All-American footballer who also excelled at basketball. He spent 23 non-consecutive 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.