height_ft death_date birth_place nationality article_title position highschool height_in birth_date number college name
6 09 february 1988 muskogee , oklahoma american joe reiff
 center crane -lrb- chicago , illinois -rrb- 3 june 5 , 1911 6 northwestern -lrb- 1930 -- 1933 -rrb- joe reiff
joe reiff

joseph `` joe '' reiff -lrb- june 5 , 1911 -- february 9 , 1988 -rrb- was an american basketball player and referee .
he was a three-time all-american center at northwestern university .
reiff , a 6 ' 3 -lrb- 1.91 m -rrb- center from crane technical high school in chicago , chose to attend nearby northwestern university and play for hall of fame coach dutch lonborg .
reiff led the wildcats to a western conference championship in his sophomore year .
reiff led the league in scoring with a 10.0 average .
northwestern finished 13-1 -lrb- 11-1 in league play -rrb- and would later be retroactively named 1931 national champions by the helms athletic foundation and reiff was named a consensus all-american .
in his junior year , reiff finished second in the conference in scoring to purdue senior john wooden .
in his senior year , reiff again led northwestern to a conference title and led the league in scoring for a second time at 14.0 points per game .
he was once again named a consensus all-american after graduating from northwestern , reiff played for rosenberg-avery of chicago in the amateur athletic union -lrb- aau -rrb- and was named to the all-aau team .
he then became a basketball referee in the western conference from 1937-1947 .
joe reiff was a charter inductee into the northwestern athletics hall of fame , elected in 1984 .
