[1] He attended Le Mars High School and, as a senior, was selected as the first-team center on the 1955 All-Iowa basketball team.

[4] In the fall of 1959, after completing a tour of military service with the U.S. Army, Gunther joined the Cleveland Pipers of the National Industrial Basketball League.

[6] He played a portion of the season with the Pistons before being sold to the Williamsport Billies of the Eastern Professional Basketball League (EBL).

[9] In May 1961, the San Francisco Saints of the American Basketball League outbid the Pistons to sign Gunther.

[13] He next served as head basketball coach at Kimball High School in Royal Oak, Michigan, from 1964 to 1967.

[17] In 1993, Gunther was hired as head basketball coach at Buena Vista in Storm Lake, Iowa.