| Fred Beretta | |
| Position: | Guard |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Proctor, Vermont |
| Nationality: | American |
| Death Place: | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| High School: | Bedford (Bedford, Indiana) |
| College: | Purdue (1937–1940) |
| Years1: | 1940–1941 |
| Team1: | Akron Firestone Non-Skids |
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Fernando Frederick Beretta (January 24, 1917 – November 17, 1962)[1] was an American basketball player. He is best known for his All-American college career with Purdue University.
Beretta played at Bedford High School in Bedford, Indiana, then went to Purdue to play college basketball. At Purdue Beretta was a three-year letterman, a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and earned first-team All-Big Ten Conference[2] and first-team All-American honors from the Helms Athletic Foundation as a senior in 1940. A guard, Beretta was known as a strong defender and ballhandler.
Beretta played for the Akron Firestone Non-Skids in the 1940–41 National Basketball League season, prior to joining the U.S. Army for World War II. Beretta would later be inducted into the Purdue athletic hall of fame[3] and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.