Edward Junge Hickox (April 10, 1878 – January 28, 1966) was an American

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

coach and administrator. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he coached the basketball team of Springfield College from 1926 to 1941, coached the

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basketball team from 1944 to 1947, was a chairman of the National Basketball Rules Committee from 1945 to 1948, served on the board of directors of the Basketball Hall of Fame from 1959 to 1966 and was an executive secretary of the Hall of Fame from 1949 to 1963. Hickox was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1959. He died January 28, 1966, at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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