Richard L. Farley (April 13, 1932 – October 2, 1969) was an American professional

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player. A 6'4" (1.93 m)

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/ forward from

Winslow, Indiana Winslow is a town in Patoka Township, Pike County, Indiana, Patoka Township, Pike County, Indiana, Pike County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 864 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Jasper, Indiana, Jasper Jasper, Indiana micro ...

, Farley played for the 1953

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national championship team. He also played three seasons (1954–1956; 1958–1959) in the

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as a member of the

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and

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. He averaged 6.5 points per game in his career and won a league title with Syracuse in 1955. Farley previously held the NBA record for the shortest amount of time on the floor before fouling out in a game, with five minutes' playing time, set on March 12, 1956. The record stood for 41 years until the Dallas Mavericks' Bubba Wells broke it by getting himself disqualified in just 3 minutes on December 29, 1997. Farley died of cancer on October 2, 1969.

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