Forrest Henry "Frosty" Sprowl (August 23, 1919 – October 19, 1988) was an American

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player and coach. An All-American college player at

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, he was a head coach at the college level at

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. Sprowl came to

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from

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to play for coach

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. During the course of his three-year varsity career he was twice named Purdue MVP and earned All-

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honors as a senior. At the close of the season he was named a second-team All-American by

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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

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) 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.

References

External links

Basketball Museum of Illinois profile
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