Howard George "Rope" Engleman (November 20, 1919 – January 12, 2011)
Former KU basketball great Howard Engleman dies
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standout at the University of Kansas
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from 1939 to 1941. He was tall, weighed 170 pounds (82 kg). and played the forward position. As a senior
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in 1940–41, Engleman averaged 16.5 points per game and became just the second Jayhawk to be named a Consensus First Team All-American. Engleman led Kansas to two Big Six Conference
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regular season championships and as runners-up in the 1940 National Championship. The Jayhawks lost to Indiana
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, 60–42, but Engleman was the tournament's top scorer after scoring 39 points in three games. When asked about the preparations to play against the Hoosiers, Engleman responded:
We didn't know what to expect because we had never seen Indiana. The only scouting report we had was a letter from a KU alumnus back there