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Interesting story of a 43 year old man who spent 25 years in the Navy after he left high school. He became an ordained minister, but he was a talented basketball player in high school, and even had scholarship offers. So he has decided to go back to college, and he is now a freshman at Geneva College in Pennsylvania (NCAA Division III).
He has appeared in all 8 games for Geneva (0-8 ), and is averaging 1.8 ppg-
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BTW, Geneva College claims that "The first college basketball game was organized intramurally by students at Geneva College in February 1892 under the coaching of professor Charles O. Bemies, Geneva's first Athletic Director. He was a prot?©g?© of Dr. James Naismith, who is credited with inventing the sport in 1891 at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass. Geneva first played in collegiate competition on April 8, 1893 using peach baskets as goals, defeating the New Brighton YMCA 3 - 0."
He has appeared in all 8 games for Geneva (0-8 ), and is averaging 1.8 ppg-
Bio-
Stats-
BTW, Geneva College claims that "The first college basketball game was organized intramurally by students at Geneva College in February 1892 under the coaching of professor Charles O. Bemies, Geneva's first Athletic Director. He was a prot?©g?© of Dr. James Naismith, who is credited with inventing the sport in 1891 at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass. Geneva first played in collegiate competition on April 8, 1893 using peach baskets as goals, defeating the New Brighton YMCA 3 - 0."