Forrest Henry "Frosty" Sprowl (August 23, 1919 – October 19, 1988) was an American
basketball
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player and coach. An
All-American college player at
Purdue
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, he was a head coach at the college level at
Lawrence
Lawrence may refer to:
Education Colleges and universities
* Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States
* Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Preparator ...
.
Sprowl came to
Purdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...
from
Oblong, Illinois
Oblong is a village in Crawford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,466 at the 2010 census, and then was later recorded to be 1,371 in the 2020 census.
History
Oblong was incorporated in 1883. The original town site was on a nat ...
to play for coach
Ward Lambert
Ward Louis "Piggy" Lambert (May 28, 1888 – January 20, 1958) was an American basketball and baseball coach. He served as the head basketball coach at Purdue University during the 1916–17 season and from 1918 to 1946. Lambert was also the head ...
. During the course of his three-year varsity career he was twice named Purdue MVP and earned All-
Big Ten Conference
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honors as a senior. At the close of the season he was named a second-team All-American by
Converse
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Mathematics and logic
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** Converse implication, the converse of a material implication
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.
Following the close of his college career, Sprowl enlisted in the Navy and played with the Great Lakes Naval Training Station under
Tony Hinkle
Paul D. "Tony" Hinkle (December 19, 1899 – September 22, 1992) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletic administrator. He attended the University of Chicago, where he won varsity letters in three spo ...
. Upon returning to civilian life, he turned to high school coaching, first for his alma mater Oblong High School for a year and then to Monticello High School in Indiana for four seasons. He was then named head basketball coach at Lawrence College (now
Lawrence University
Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducation ...
) in 1951, also taking on assistant football and head tennis coaching duties. He coached at Lawrence for four seasons before resigning for a corporate job.
Sprowl died on October 21, 1988.
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References
External links
Basketball Museum of Illinois profile
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1919 births
1988 deaths
All-American college men's basketball players
American men's basketball coaches
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Basketball coaches from Indiana
Basketball players from Indiana
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College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
College tennis coaches in the United States
High school basketball coaches in Illinois
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