1. Paul D "Tony" Hinkle was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletic administrator.
18 Facts About Tony Hinkle
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Tony Hinkle attended the University of Chicago, where he won varsity letters in three sports.
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Tony Hinkle was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1965.
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Tony Hinkle was born in Logansport, Indiana, to Edgar Clayton and Winnie Tony Hinkle.
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Tony Hinkle graduated in 1917 from Calumet High School in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Chicago from 1917 to 1921.
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Tony Hinkle joined Butler University in 1921 when they were still at the Irvington campus; the university bought Fairview Park in 1922 and moved the campus there in 1928.
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At Butler, Tony Hinkle served as a teacher, coach and athletic administrator for nearly half a century.
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Tony Hinkle's teams were fearless, gaining a reputation as "Big Ten killers".
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Tony Hinkle was instrumental in ending the rule providing for a jump ball after every basket, and in the introduction of the three-second rule.
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Basketballs were generally brown until Tony Hinkle introduced the orange basketball in the late 1950s.
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Tony Hinkle came up with the "Hinkle System" offense strategy, based on a complex system of motion, passes, picks and screens; it was adopted by many of the over 200 high school and college coaches trained by Hinkle.
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Tony Hinkle was president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches from 1954 to 1955, and served on their board.
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Tony Hinkle won the NABC's top award in 1962 for contributions to the betterment of the game of basketball.
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Tony Hinkle was named Chairman of the Rules Committee of the National Basketball Committee of the US and Canada.
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Tony Hinkle was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965, the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964, and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1974.
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Tony Hinkle's legacy is remembered on the Butler campus with Tony Hinkle Fieldhouse, longtime site of Indiana's state high school championships and featured in the film Hoosiers.
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Tony Hinkle coached 41 seasons of basketball at Butler, ending in 1970, and remained with Butler University until his death in 1992.
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Tony Hinkle is buried alongside his wife, Jane Murdock Stewart Tony Hinkle at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.