caption height_ft death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality position highschool article_title height_in birth_date number image college name
pralle with the phillips 66ers . 6 6 november 1998 gainesville , florida st. louis , missouri 250px american guard st. louis -lrb- st. louis , missouri -rrb- fred pralle
 0 10 april 1916 5 fred pralle 66ers.jpg kansas -lrb- 1935 -- 1938 -rrb- fred pralle
fred pralle

fred j. pralle -lrb- april 10 , 1916 -- november 6 , 1998 -rrb- was an american college basketball standout at the university of kansas from 1935 -- 36 to 1937 -- 38 .
in his three varsity seasons , kansas won all three big six conference regular season championships .
pralle led the jayhawks in scoring in each of his last two seasons , and as a senior he also led the conference in scoring with a 10.7 points per game average .
he was twice named an ncaa all-american -lrb- 1937 , 1938 -rrb- , and in 1938 he became kansas ' first ever play to be honored as a consensus all-american .
after his collegiate career , pralle played in the amateur athletic union -lrb- aau -rrb- with the national aau power phillips 66ers .
during his seven-year career with the team , the 66ers won three national championships -lrb- 1940 , 1943 -- 44 -rrb- and were runners-up in two others -lrb- 1939 , 1942 -rrb- .
pralle sustained a knee injury just before the 1945 aau tournament derailed his basketball career .
he eventually played baseball in the kansas -- oklahoma -- missouri league with the bartlesville oilers before quitting professional sports .
pralle died on november 6 , 1998 .
