Ralph Beard
| Personal information | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
December 2, 1927 Hardinsburg, Kentucky | |||||||||
| Died |
November 29, 2007 (aged 79) Louisville, Kentucky | |||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||
| Listed weight | 175 lb (79 kg) | |||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||
| High school | Louisville Male (Louisville, Kentucky) | |||||||||
| College | Kentucky (1945–1949) | |||||||||
| NBA draft | 1949 / Round: 2 | |||||||||
| Selected by the Chicago Stags | ||||||||||
| Playing career | 1949–1951 | |||||||||
| Position | Guard | |||||||||
| Number | 12 | |||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||
| 1949–1951 | Indianapolis Olympians | |||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||
| ||||||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||
| Points | 2,006 (15.9 ppg) | |||||||||
| Rebounds | 251 (3.8 rpg) | |||||||||
| Assists | 551 (4.4 apg) | |||||||||
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | ||||||||||
|
Medals
| ||||||||||
.svg.png){kind=icon}
Ralph Milton Beard Jr. (December 2, 1927 – November 29, 2007) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player.[1]
Biography
Beard was born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky. He was a member of Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky basketball team, with Alex Groza, Wallace Jones, Cliff Barker, and Kenny Rollins. Beard won a gold medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics with the Fabulous Five and the Phillips 66ers.
Taken in the second round of the 1949 NBA draft, Beard played two seasons with the Indianapolis Olympians and averaged 15.9 points and 4.4 assists per game.[2]
Following the 1951 season, Beard and teammate Alex Groza were banned from the NBA for life by then-commissioner Maurice Podoloff after the players admitted to point shaving during their college careers. This scandal was the CCNY point shaving scandal Beard died at his Louisville, Kentucky home in 2007.[3]
References
- ↑ Ralph Beard Statistics
- ↑ "All-Time Kentucky Team (Starting PG): #12 Ralph Beard". straitpinkie.com. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
- ↑ Former UK star Ralph Beard, part of a college basketball point-shaving scandal, dies at 79 Yahoo! Sports. 29 November 2007.
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ralph Beard. |
- Ralph Beard profile
- Ralph Beard Info Page at NBA.com
- Ralph Beard at Basketball-Reference.com
- Ralph Beard at Find a Grave