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 ====== Francis (Frank) Zummach ====== ====== Francis (Frank) Zummach ======
 +{{  men_s_basketball:fzummach.jpg|}}
 **Position:** Forward\\ **Position:** Forward\\
-**Height:** \\+**Height:** 5'10"\\
 **Weight:** \\ **Weight:** \\
 **Born:** \\ **Born:** \\
-**Hometown:** \\ +**Hometown:** Milwaukee, WI\\ 
-**High School:** \\+**High School:** [[Marquette H.S.]]\\
  
 ===== High School Career ===== ===== High School Career =====
  
 ===== Marquette Career ===== ===== Marquette Career =====
-Zummach was the team co-captain in the 1931-32 season.+ 
 +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 ===== 
 +{{ men_s_basketball:zummach.jpg|}} 
 +  * 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]] 
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