Lauren "Laddie" Gale (April 22, 1917 – July 29, 1996) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player.

"[1] Gale led the Ducks in scoring in 1938 and 1939, earning All-Pacific Coast Conference honors in each season.

In 1939, Gale led the Ducks to a national championship in the first-ever Division I men's basketball tournament.

[3] He left the Eagles in to serve in World War II,[3] reportedly after being the first Oregon draftee selected by lottery.

[1] For his stellar collegiate play, for being the first college player regularly to employ a one-handed shot, and for helping to popularize the sport of basketball in the American West, Gale was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1977[2] and was an inaugural inductee of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.