Dick Ives

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Dick Ives
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Personal information
Born (1926-04-26)April 26, 1926
Diagonal, Iowa
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Miami, Florida
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight 175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High school Diagonal (Diagonal, Iowa)
College Iowa (1943–1947)
NBA draft 1947 / Round: – / Pick: –
Selected by the Pittsburgh Ironmen
Position Forward
Career highlights and awards
  • Consensus second-team All-American (1945)
  • Iowa single game scoring record (43; since broken)
  • First freshman to lead Big Ten in scoring
  • Iowa University's all-decade team of the 1940s

Richard C. "Dick" Ives (April 26, 1926 – May 5, 1997)[1] was an American basketball player for the University of Iowa from 1943–44 to 1946–47. A native of Diagonal, Iowa, Ives passed up the opportunity to play college basketball at Drake University on a full athletic scholarship so that he could play at Iowa under coach "Pops" Harrison.[2] Ives had been a stand-out basketball player at Diagonal High School and led the team to the state championship.[1]

Ives entered the University of Iowa in the fall of 1943 as a 17-year-old freshman.[2] Due to World War II and the lack of able-bodied male student athletes across the nation, the NCAA allowed freshmen to play varsity sports in college, which until that time had been disallowed.[1] With this rare opportunity, Ives went on to have a highly successful four-year letter-winning career as a Hawkeye. He led the team in scoring for his first three seasons, and as a freshman he scored a then-unheard of school- and Big Ten Conference-record 43 points in a single game.[1][2] It is still the third highest scoring game in Iowa history and it earned him the nickname "Diagonal Dagger."[1] Ives was a three-time All-American, and in 1944–45 he was voted as a consensus Second Team All-American (coincidentally, fellow sophomore teammate Herb Wilkinson was also a consensus All-American).[2] That season, the Hawkeyes also won the Big Ten Conference championship.[2]

After his senior year in 1946–47, Ives was drafted by the Pittsburgh Ironmen of the Basketball Association of America (which would become the National Basketball Association) but never played a game for them.[3] He instead coached basketball and baseball at Parsons College, married Joan Newton and lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where Ives had a hardware business.[1] In 1954 they moved to Miami, Florida, and resided there for the rest of their lives.[1] Ives died on May 5, 1997 in Miami.[1]

References

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