caption height_ft death_date weight_lb death_place image_size nationality position article_title height_in birth_date number image college name
speight with the phillips 66ers . 6 01 march 2007 185 richmond , virginia 250px american forward bobby speight
 7 07 october 1930 80 bobby speight.jpg nc state -lrb- 1950 -- 1953 -rrb- bobby speight
bobby speight

robert w. `` bobby '' speight , sr. -lrb- october 7 , 1930 -- march 1 , 2007 -rrb- was an american college basketball standout and , later , successful businessman .
a native of raleigh , north carolina , speight chose to stay close to home to play college basketball and decided on nc state .
he would play from 1950 -- 51 to 1952 -- 53 under the future-hall of famer everett case .
during speight 's three-year varsity career he scored 1,430 points and grabbed 1,057 rebounds , and his rebound total still ranks fourth all-time .
he was named an ncaa all-american in his senior year and was then drafted by the baltimore bullets in the 1953 nba draft , although he ultimately never played a game in the league .
for two years after college , speight played basketball for the phillips 66ers of the amateur athletic union -lrb- aau -rrb- , which was a popular alternative to the national basketball association -lrb- nba -rrb- during that era .
he then enlisted in the united states army .
after his military service he co-founded the trucking company e&s contract carrier which he worked for up until his retirement in 2006 .
speight died on march 1 , 2007 , after losing his fight with cancer .
