Robert Earl "Bob" Kenney (June 23, 1931 – October 27, 2014) was an All-State basketball player at Winfield High School in
Winfield, Kansas
Winfield is a city and county seat of Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Walnut River in South Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 11,777. It is home to Southwestern College.
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as well as an American
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
player who competed in the
Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the third appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. 23 nations entered the competition.
The top six teams at the 1948 Summer Olympics qualified automatically, as did t ...
.
He was part of the American basketball team, which won the gold medal in seven matches.
Prior to that, he played for the
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...
team.
In 1999, Kenney was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fam
References
External links
Profile on DatabaseOlympics.com
1931 births
2014 deaths
American men's basketball players
Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1955 Pan American Games
Basketball players from Kansas
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball players
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in basketball
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
United States men's national basketball team players
Pan American Games medalists in basketball
Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games
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