high_school years death_date nationality career_end position team article_title birth_date college name career_start
st. mel 's -lrb- chicago , illinois -rrb- 1939 -- 1941 1944 -- 1945 1945 -- 1946 7 february 1971 american 1946 guard / forward hammond nbl -rrb- chicago american gears -lrb- nbl -rrb- ciesar all-americans -lrb- nbl -rrb- pittsburgh raiders -lrb- bobby neu
 28 june 1917 depaul -lrb- 1936 -- 1939 -rrb- bobby neu 1939
bobby neu

robert `` bobby '' neu -lrb- june 28 , 1917 -- february 7 , 1971 -rrb- was an american basketball player .
he played four seasons in the american national basketball league , a forerunner to the modern national basketball association .
neu , who was of german descent , played high school basketball at st. mel high school in chicago , illinois .
he then played college basketball for hometown depaul university , where he was an all-american in his junior and senior seasons .
following his college career , he played professionally in the nbl .
he spent two seasons with the hammond ciesar all-americans , earning second-team all-nbl honors in 1941 .
he then spent three years in the military during world war ii .
upon returning from the service , neu played two more seasons in the nbl for the pittsburgh raiders and chicago american gears .
for his nbl career , neu averaged 6.7 points over 80 games .
