Otto A. Stangel (March 23, 1889 – March 29, 1956), a native of

Two Rivers, Wisconsin Two Rivers is a city in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 11,712 at the 2010 census. It is the birthplace of the ice cream sundae (though other cities, such as Ithaca, New York, make the same claim). The city's advert ...

, was an

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basketball player at the

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in 1911–12. He led the

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in scoring with 177 points, a record which stood for eight years. The Badgers went undefeated in 1911–12 at 15–0 and were named co-Big Ten champions as well as retroactively-named national champions by the

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. Helms also named Stangel an All-American in

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. Stangel was later the superintendent of farms at Delaware Valley University and the school's football coach in 1923.

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