====== Francis (Frank) Zummach ======
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**Position:** Forward\\
**Height:** 5'10"\\
**Weight:** \\
**Born:** \\
**Hometown:** Milwaukee, WI\\
**High School:** [[Marquette H.S.]]\\

===== High School Career =====

===== Marquette Career =====

Zummach started basketball at Marquette as a walk-on.

=== 1930-31 ===
Averaged 2.4 points per game.

=== 1931-32 ===
Served as team co-captain and averaged 3.6 points per game.

=== 1932-33 ===
Averaged 3 points per game.

He later became Marquette's first paid assistant coach and helped develop such notable Marquette cagers as [[Eugene Ronzani]], [[Ernest Kukla]], Adolph “Big Mitts” Gorychka and [[Raymond Morstadt]].



===== Professional Career =====

From 1939 to 1942, Zummach coached professionally for the Sheboygan Red Skins of the the National Basketball League (NBL). His Sheboygan team featured former Marquette players.

**Zummach reflecting on his experience in the NBL:**\\
//"It was huge. Season tickets were sold out. ... I got $500 to coach and $100 for legal problems, of which they didn't have any. My law office was in the Security National Bank building. The day after a game, I used to go down the alley behind The Press to the courthouse. Otherwise, I could waste two hours because everyone wanted to talk about the game. I stayed hidden away when we lost. ... Once in a while today, someone will yell, 'Hey, Coach.' And that's 60-some years ago. ... A few years back, I went to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, and saw a team picture of the Red Skins the day I was there. I don't know if they knew I was coming or what."//


**Former player, [[Glenn Adams|Glenn "Sparky" Adams]] on Coach Zummach:**\\
//"(Head coach) Frank Zummach was a very fine student of Bill Chandler's at Marquette, had the same traits Bill Chandler had, and they were all excellent."//\\
[[http://sheboygan-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071126/SHE02/711260534/1082&template=pdaart|Local Basketball: 'The Gym Was Always Full', Sheboygan Press, 11/26/2007]]

===== Personal =====

Zummach graduated from Marquette with an Arts and Sciences degree in 1933 and a Law degree in 1935.  His older brother, [[Jack Zummach]] also played at Marquette.

===== Trivia =====
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  * Frank is retired, living in Sheboygan and as of 2009, he is the oldest living Marquette basketball player at the age of 98.

===== Links =====
  * [[http://marquettetribune.its.mu.edu/magazine/spring07/history.shtml|This Player's Got History, Marquette Tribune, Spring 2007]]