Ed Wachter

Ed Wachter 1933 Goudey Sport Kings basketball card.

Edward A. Wachter (June 30, 1883 – March 12, 1966) was one of the first professional basketball players. The 6 ft 1 in Wachter is widely regarded as the greatest center of the 1910s.

Wachter, a native of Troy, New York, played for several professional teams, like the Troy Trojans, in his 25-year career. He later coached at several schools, including Harvard University. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961.

References

Hall of Fame profile
Peterson, Robert W. (2002). "Fumbling, Faltering, Failing". Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 46–68. ISBN 0-8032-8772-0.

External links

Ed Wachter's World - more info

Albany Great Danes men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1910–1912)
Arch Swaim (1912–1916)
Ed Wachter (1916–1917)
Arthur Maroney (1917–1919)
Wilfred Clarke (1919–1920)
Francis Boggs Snavely (1920–1924)
Rutherford Baker (1924–1935)
Irving Goewey (1935–1936)
G. Elliott Hatfield (1936–1943)
H. Grogan # (1943)
No team (1943–1945)
Merlin Hathaway (1945–1955)
Doc Sauers (1955–1987)
Barry Cavanaugh (1987–1988)
Doc Sauers (1988–1997)
Scott Hicks (1997–2000)
Scott Beeten (2000–2001)
Will Brown (2001– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Harvard Crimson men's basketball head coaches

John K. Clark (1900–1902)
John Gilles (1902–1904)
No coach (1904–1905)
Clarence Randall (1905–1906)
Unknown (1906–1907)
George Grebenstein (1907–1909)
No official team (1909–1920)
Ed Wachter (1920–1933)
Wes Fesler (1933–1941)
Earl Brown (1941–1943)
Floyd Stahl (1943–1946)
William Barclay (1946–1949)
Norman Shepard (1949–1954)
Floyd Wilson (1954–1968)
Bob Harrison (1968–1973)
Satch Sanders (1973–1977)
Francis McLaughlin (1977–1985)
Peter Roby (1985–1991)
Frank Sullivan (1991–2007)
Tommy Amaker (2007– )

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1961

Players	Bennie Borgmann Forrest DeBernardi Bob Kurland Andy Phillip John Roosma Christian Steinmetz Ed Wachter

Coaches	George Keogan Lenny Sachs

Contributors	John O'Brien Arthur Schabinger Arthur Trester

Referees	George Hoyt Ernest C. Quigley David Tobey David Walsh

Teams	Buffalo Germans

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

Coaches (100)

Alexeeva Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Calipari Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gaze Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hatchell Heinsohn Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Izzo Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Leonard Lewis Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire McLendon Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nelson Nikolić Novosel Olson Pitino Ramsay Richardson Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Tarkanian Taylor Teague Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens G. Williams R. Williams Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players Italics indicates those who are also inducted as contributors.

Contributors (67)

Abbott Barksdale Bee Biasone H. Brown W. Brown Bunn Buss Clifton Colangelo Cooper Davidson Douglas Duer Embry Fagan Fisher Fleisher Gavitt Gottlieb Granik Gulick Harrison Hearn Henderson Hepp Hickox Hinkle Irish Jones Kennedy Knight Lemon Liston Lloyd McLendon Mokray Morgan Morgenweck Naismith Newell Newton J. O'Brien L. O'Brien Olsen Podoloff Porter Raveling Reid Reinsdorf Ripley Sanders Saperstein Schabinger St. John Stagg Stanković Steitz Stern Taylor Tower Trester Vitale Wells Wilke Winter Zollner

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches.

Players (174)

Guards	Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cooper-Dyke Cousy Dampier Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Guerin Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Isaacs Iverson Jeannette D. Johnson E. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Marčiulionis Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers R. Miller Monroe Murphy Page Payton Petrović Phillip Posey Richmond Robertson Rodgers Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Staley Steinmetz Stockton Swoopes Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West J. White Wilkens Woodard Wooden

Forwards	Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley R. Brown Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Haywood Heinsohn Howell G. Johnson King Lucas Luisetti K. Malone McClain B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen C. Miller Mullin Pettit Pippen Pollard Ramsey Rodman Schayes E. Schmidt O. Schmidt Stokes Thompson Twyman Walker N. White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Beaty Bellamy Chamberlain Ćosić Cowens Crawford Daniels DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel W. Johnson Johnston Krause Kurland Lanier Leslie Lovellette Lapchick Macauley M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Mourning Murphy Mutombo Olajuwon O'Neal Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton Yao

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

Referees (16)

Bavetta Enright Garretson Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nichols Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh

Teams (10)

1960 United States Olympic Team 1992 United States Olympic Team All American Red Heads Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters Immaculata College New York Renaissance Original Celtics Texas Western

Awards

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