high_school height_ft weight_lbs years death_date death_place birth_place career_end team position article_title height_in birth_date college name career_start
calumet -lrb- gary , indiana -rrb- 6 230 1946 1950 -- 1951 -- 1947 1947 -- 1948 1948 -- 1950 25 january 2015 janesville , wisconsin gary , indiana 1951 detroit refiners falcons flint dow chemicals sheboygan red skins denver center milt schoon
 7 25 february 1922 trine -- 1946 -rrb- -lrb- 1941 -- 1942 -rrb- valparaiso -lrb- 1943 milt schoon 1946
milt schoon

milton w. `` milt '' schoon -lrb- february 25 , 1922 -- january 18 , 2015 -rrb- was an american professional basketball player .
a 6-foot-7 , 230-pound center , schoon began his college career at tri-state college -lrb- now trine university -rrb- during the 1941-42 season before going on to play at valparaiso university during the 1940s , gaining fame for his ability to defend top-ranked player george mikan of depaul university .
schoon then played professionally in the baa , nbl , nba , and npbl as a member of the anderson packers , detroit falcons , flint dow chemicals , sheboygan redskins and denver refiners .
schoon was the last full-time player surviving from the sheboygan red skins ' 1949-50 nba team .
he platooned with noble jorgensen at center and played in all 62 games for the red skins that season , averaging eight points and shooting a team-best 41 percent from the field .
sheboygan 's greatest conquests that season were victories over the new york knicks , rochester royals , syracuse nationals and minneapolis lakers at the sheboygan auditorium and armory .
the red skins advanced to the nba playoffs where they nearly eliminated the western division champion indianapolis olympians in a best-of-three series .
with the npbl 's denver frontier-refiners in 1951 , schoon scored 363 points in 31 games , an 11.7 point average .
he set a professional basketball scoring record with 64 points in a 99-72 victory over the kansas city hi-spots on jan. 21 , 1951 , at the denver auditorium .
that record is currently held by wilt chamberlain , who scored 100 points in a 1962 nba game .
the frontier-refiners compiled an 18-16 record , but the team moved to evansville late in the season and schoon 's professional career ended .
schoon was elected to the valparaiso athletic hall of fame in 2000 .
schoon died on january 18 , 2015 in his home in janesville , wisconsin .
