Bob Gantt
Basketball + Football
Inducted: 1978
- Born in Durham, 1922
- Member of famous Durham High School basketball team that won three state titles
- Played four years of football and three years of basketball at Duke University
- All-American end in football in 1942
- All-SC basketball center in 1943
- Captured SC titles in shot put and discus in track and field
- Won Teague Award as outstanding athlete in the Carolinas in 1942
- Became first Duke player to play pro basketball, playing for Washington in 1947 and Sheboygan in 1948
- College football and basketball official in the 1950s-1960s
- Died in 1995
