Question: Ernest J. Schmidt (February 12, 1911 – September 6, 1986) was an American college basketball player born in Nashville, Kansas, he played college basketball for Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg in the early 1930s, Pittsburg State University PSU, is a public university with approximately 7,479 students, located in Pittsburg, Kansas in which country?

Context articles: Aaron McCreary
Guy Lowman
David L. MacFarlane
Osborne Cowles
Fred Faurot
Ernest Schmidt
Blue Howell
John B. Reid
Pittsburg State University
George E. Cooper

Aaron Monroe "Mac" McCreary (September 15, 1892 – ?)
 was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
 He served as the head football coach at Tempe State Teachers College, known at Arizona State Teachers College by 1929 and now called Arizona State University, compiling a career college football record of 25–17–4.
 McCreary was also the head basketball coach at Tempe/Arizona State Teachers from 1923 to 1930 and at Arizona State Teacher's College of Flagstaff, now Northern Arizona University, amassing a career college basketball record of 140–149.
 In addition, he coached baseball at Tempe/Arizona State Teachers (1924–1926, 1928, 1930–1931) and at Arizona State Teacher's Flagstaff in 1959, tallying a career college baseball mark of 22–56–1.
Guy Sumner Lowman (May 1877 – September 14, 1943) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and a player of baseball.
 He served as the head football coach at Warrensburg Teachers College—now the University of Central Missouri (1907), the University of Alabama (1910), Kansas State University (1911–1914), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1918).
 Lowman also coached basketball at Warrensburg Teachers College, now known as the University of Central Missouri (1907–1908), the University of Missouri, (1908–1910), Kansas State (1911–1914), Indiana University (1916), and Wisconsin (1917–1920) and baseball at Central Missouri State (1907–1908), Missouri (1909–1910), Alabama (1911), Kansas State (1912–1915), and Wisconsin (1918, 1921–1932).
David L. MacFarlane, PhD (March 13, 1893 – January 3, 1953) was an American educator most notable for serving as president of the Kansas State Teachers College (KSTC), now known as Emporia State University.
 Before heading the Kansas State Teachers College, MacFarlane was a professor of history in a couple of institutions in Kansas.
Osborne Bryan Cowles (August 25, 1899 – August 29, 1997) was an American basketball player and coach.
 He was the head men's basketball coach at Carleton College (1924–1930), River Falls State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin–River Falls) (1932–1936), Dartmouth College (1936–1946), University of Michigan (1946–1948), and University of Minnesota (1948–1959).
 He was also the head baseball coach and assistant basketball and football coach at Iowa State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Iowa during 1923–24.
 In 30 seasons as a collegiate head basketball coach, Cowles compiled a record of 416–189 ( ).
 His teams competed in the NCAA basketball tournament six times.
 At the time of his retirement in 1959, Cowles ranked among the top 15 college basketball coaches of all-time by number of games won.
 He has been inducted into the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame, the Dartmouth "Wearers of the Green," the University of Minnesota "M" Club Hall of Fame, the Carleton College Hall of Fame, and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Athletics Hall of Fame.
Frederick Winslow "Fritz" Faurot, Jr. (March 18, 1909 – December 12, 2000) was an American football player and coach.
 Starting as coach in 1933 at Excelsior Springs, MO, high school; moved to Chillicothe, MO in 1934-35.
 He then served as the head football coach at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College—commonly known at the time as Kirksville State Teachers College and now known as Truman State University—from 1935 to 1937, at Parsons College from 1938 to 1941, at Central Methodist College in 1945 as basketball coach, 1946 as Director of Athletics and football coach, and at Murray State University from 1948 to 1955, compiling a career college football coach record of 73–49–9.
 Faurot played college football at the University of Missouri, lettering in 1930 and 1932.
 He served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, as an instructor in the physical training program, during World War II.
 He was the brother of College Football Hall of Fame coach, Don Faurot.
Ernest J. Schmidt (February 12, 1911 – September 6, 1986) was an American college basketball player born in Nashville, Kansas.
 He played college basketball for Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg in the early 1930s and was considered one of the best players of his time.
 He led the team to 47 straight victories and four straight conference titles.
 He was nicknamed "One Grand" for scoring exactly 1,000 points during his college career.
 He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1974.
Edward E. "Blue" Howell was an American football player and coach.
 He was the fifth head football coach at Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg—now known as Pittsburg State University—in Pittsburg, Kansas, serving for eight seasons, from 1929 to 1935 and again in 1937, compiling a record of 35–30–6.
John Bond Reid (February 25, 1896 – December 21, 1963)} was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.
 He served as head football coach at North Texas State Teachers College, now the University of North Texas, from 1925 to 1928, compiling a record of 17–18–3.
 Reid was also the head basketball coach at North Texas State Teachers from 1924 to 1929 and at Texas A&M University from 1929 to 1935, amassing a career college basketball record of 144–84.
 In addition, he was the head baseball coach at North Texas State Teachers College from 1925 to 1926, tallying a mark 7–11.
 He died of prostate cancer in 1963.
 He is interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Woodville.
Pittsburg State University, also called Pitt State or PSU, is a public university with approximately 7,479 students (6,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students) located in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States.
 A large percentage of the student population consists of residents within the Pittsburg region; the gender proportion is relatively equal.
 Almost 89% of the students are Americans.
 Pitt State also has a 19:1 student-to-faculty ratio.
 It is a member of the Kansas Board of Regents.
 Currently, it has an endowment of around $74,000,000.
 The student newspaper of Pittsburg State University is the "Collegio."
George E. Cooper was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator.
 He served as the head football coach at Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, in 1919 and at Colorado State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Colorado, from 1922 to 1927, compiling a career college football record of 15–13–1.
 Cooper was also the head basketball coach at Tempe Normal from 1917 to 1922 and at Colorado State Teachers from 1922 to 1931, tallying a career college basketball mark of 130–62.
 In addition, he coached baseball at the two schools, at Tempe Normal from 1918 to 1922, and at Colorado State Teachers from 1922 to 1926 and again in 1929, amassing a career college baseball record of 60–28–1.
 Cooper played football at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.