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American basketball player
A.K.A.
Dan Luther Pippin
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Male
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Birth:
20 October 1926(St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
Death:
1 April 1965(Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri, USA)
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Education:
University of Missouri
Columbia, Boone County, USA
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Biography
Dan Luther Pippin (October 20, 1926 – April 1, 1965) was an American basketball player who played for the University of Missouri. He later captained the American basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympics that won the gold medal in Helsinki. He played in all eight games.
After Pippin graduated from the University of Missouri he went to work for the Caterpillar Tractor Company in Peoria, Illinois, and played for the National Industrial Basketball League team it sponsored, the Peoria Cats. Pippin later moved to New Mexico where he engaged in the insurance business before returning to his native Missouri. He committed suicide in 1965.