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Dick Ives
Personal information
Born(1924-07-22)July 22, 1924
Diagonal, Iowa
DiedMay 5, 1997(1997-05-05) (aged 71)
Miami, Florida
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight156 lb (71 kg)
Career information
High schoolDiagonal (Diagonal, Iowa)
CollegeIowa (1943–1947)
NBA draft1947: – round, –
Selected by the Pittsburgh Ironmen
PositionForward
Number20
Career highlights and awards
Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata

Richard C. 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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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Dick Ives". Ringgold Co. IAGenWeb Project. June 14, 2010. Retrieved September 12, 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b c d e Maly, Ron (April 8, 1979). "Dick Ives, Diagonal, 1979". Des Moines Register. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
  3. ^ "Pittsburgh Ironmen Draft Register (1947)". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
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