death_date color career_end nationality fontcolor position article_title sport nickname college name career_start
1932 #ffcc 33 1925 american # 000000 center earl mueller
 basketball `` dutch '' colorado college earl mueller 1923
earl mueller

earl edmond `` dutch '' mueller -lrb- died 1932 -rrb- was an american college basketball player .
he was the 1925 national player of the year as a center at colorado college .
mueller , from saint joseph , missouri , was an early college basketball standout at colorado college in colorado springs , colorado .
he played two seasons for the tigers , leading the team to two colorado -- wyoming conference titles .
mueller played the center position and was known for his ball-handling and pivot play .
he was retroactively named an all-american and national player of the year for 1925 by the helms athletic foundation in 1943 .
following the completion of his college career , mueller returned to his hometown and played amateur athletic union basketball with hillyard , inc. .
mueller won an aau championship with hillyard in 1926 .
mueller died in 1932 after an appendix operation .
he was inducted into the national association of intercollegiate athletics -lrb- naia -rrb- hall of fame in 1952 .
