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 ====== Francis (Frank) Zummach ======
+{{  men_s_basketball:fzummach.jpg|}}
 **Position:** Forward\\
-**Height:** \\
+**Height:** 5'10"\\
 **Weight:** \\
 **Born:** \\
-**Hometown:** \\
+**Hometown:** Milwaukee, WI\\
-**High School:** \\
+**High School:** [[Marquette H.S.]]\\
 ===== High School Career =====
 ===== Marquette Career =====
+Zummach started basketball at Marquette as a walk-on.
 === 1930-31 ===
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 === 1931-32 ===
-Served as team co-captain.
+Served as team co-captain and averaged 3.6 points per game.
+=== 1932-33 ===
+Averaged 3 points per game.
+He later became Marquette's first paid assistant coach and helped develop such notable Marquette cagers as [[Eugene Ronzani]], [[Ernest Kukla]], Adolph “Big Mitts” Gorychka and [[Raymond Morstadt]].
+===== Professional Career =====
+From 1939 to 1942, Zummach coached professionally for the Sheboygan Red Skins of the the National Basketball League (NBL). His Sheboygan team featured former Marquette players.
+**Zummach reflecting on his experience in the NBL:**\\
+//"It was huge. Season tickets were sold out. ... I got $500 to coach and $100 for legal problems, of which they didn't have any. My law office was in the Security National Bank building. The day after a game, I used to go down the alley behind The Press to the courthouse. Otherwise, I could waste two hours because everyone wanted to talk about the game. I stayed hidden away when we lost. ... Once in a while today, someone will yell, 'Hey, Coach.' And that's 60-some years ago. ... A few years back, I went to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, and saw a team picture of the Red Skins the day I was there. I don't know if they knew I was coming or what."//
+**Former player, [[Glenn Adams|Glenn "Sparky" Adams]] on Coach Zummach:**\\
+//"(Head coach) Frank Zummach was a very fine student of Bill Chandler's at Marquette, had the same traits Bill Chandler had, and they were all excellent."//\\
+[[http://sheboygan-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071126/SHE02/711260534/1082&template=pdaart|Local Basketball: 'The Gym Was Always Full', Sheboygan Press, 11/26/2007]]
+===== Personal =====
+Zummach graduated from Marquette with an Arts and Sciences degree in 1933 and a Law degree in 1935.  His older brother, [[Jack Zummach]] also played at Marquette.
+===== Trivia =====
+{{ men_s_basketball:zummach.jpg|}}
+  * Frank is retired, living in Sheboygan and as of 2009, he is the oldest living Marquette basketball player at the age of 98.
+===== Links =====
+  * [[http://marquettetribune.its.mu.edu/magazine/spring07/history.shtml|This Player's Got History, Marquette Tribune, Spring 2007]]