Burl Friddle

As a coach, he won two Indiana state championships and led a team of freshmen to the finals of the National Invitation Tournament.

As Friddle was still a student at Franklin College, this was a violation of Indiana High School Athletic Association rules and led to the team being suspended for that year's state basketball tournament.

[4] In 1935, he became the head coach at South Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he compiled a record of 106–40 and won a second state championship in 1938.

[4] Due to World War II, Toledo was forced to play an all-freshman team consisting of players Friddle recruited from his home state of Indiana.

[2] In 1948, he was named head coach of the Basketball Association of America's Indianapolis Jets after the team traded away player-coach Bruce Hale.