He attended Purdue University and played for their basketball and baseball teams.
He was named first-team all-Western Conference and was also declared a consensus All-American by the Helms Athletic Foundation.
[5][6] He won or tied seven conference regular season championships throughout his career: three at Washington University, one at Connecticut, and three at Rutgers.
[5] Internationally, White was chosen by the U.S. State Department to establish a basketball program in Thailand.
[7] He was the national basketball team head coach in the 1956 Summer Olympics,[7] placing 15th out of 15 squads.