Tony Hinkle

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Paul D. "Tony" Hinkle (December 19 1899 - September 22 1992) was an American college basketball coach at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965.

Hinkle was born in Logansport, Indiana. From the early 1920s until his retirement in 1970, Paul Hinkle was the Dean of Indiana college coaches. Although Hinkle coached three sports, "Tony" was known as an outstanding basketball coach. Under Hinkle's tutelage, Butler's sports teams won more than 1,000 games in football, basketball and baseball. Hinkle's Butler University basketball teams were fearless, and developed a reputation as Big Ten giant killers. Hinkle, a former NABC president, devoted his entire basketball career to Butler, coaching for 41 seasons and winning 557 games. In 1929, Hinkle enjoyed his greatest coaching moment. His team went 17-2 and was declared national champions. Hinkle's legend is forever remembered on the Butler campus with the Tony Hinkle Memorial Fieldhouse, longtime site of Indiana's State High School championships.

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Career as a player

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High school

  • Calumet High School (Chicago, IL) (graduated 1917)
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College

  • University of Chicago (1917-21)
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College playing highlights

  • Helms All-American (1920)
  • Two-time All-Big Ten and team captain
  • Member of Big 10 Championship team (1919-20)
  • Team lost to Penn in national championship
  • Earned three letters in basketball
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Career as a coach

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College coaching

  • Butler University (Indianapolis, IN) (1926-70)
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College coaching highlights

  • Butler record: 560-392
  • Led Bulldogs to 1929 national championship
  • Assistant on the 1924 Butler national championship team
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Career highlights

  • Acknowledged as "Dean of Indiana College Basketball Coaches" at time of his retirement in 1970
  • President, National Association of Basketball Coaches (1954-55)
  • Former member, NABC Board of Directors
  • Former Chairman, Rules Committee of the National Basketball Committee of the U.S. and Canada
  • Fieldhouse at Butler named in his honor (1965)
  • Had more than 1,000 coaching victories at Butler in football, baseball and basketball
  • Won NABC's top award in 1962 for contributions to the betterment of the game of basketball
  • Enshrined in Indiana Basketball and Helms Foundation Basketball Halls of Fame
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External link

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