Otto Stangel Explained

Otto Stangel
Nationality:American
Birth Date:23 March 1889
Birth Place:Tisch Mills, Wisconsin, U.S.
Death Place:St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.
College:Wisconsin (1910–1912)
Position:Forward
Highlights:

Otto A. Stangel (March 23, 1889 – March 29, 1956), a native of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, was an NCAA Men's Basketball All-American basketball player at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1911–12. He led the Big Ten Conference in scoring with 177 points, a record which stood for eight years. The Badgers went undefeated in 1911–12 at 15–0 and were named co-Big Ten champions as well as retroactively-named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Helms also named Stangel an All-American in 1912.

Stangel was later the superintendent of farms at Delaware Valley University and the school's football coach in 1923.[1]

Additional sources

  1. Book: Anderson, Dave. 16. University of Wisconsin Basketball . Arcadia Publishing . dartmouthsports.com . PDF. 2006 . 9780738541211. November 28, 2010.
  2. Book: Kopriva, Don . Mott, Jim . 26. On Wisconsin!: The History of Badger Athletics . Sports Publishing Inc. . PDF. 1998. 9781571670380 . November 28, 2010.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Thirty-fifth Annual Report of The National Farm School 1932. Delaware Valley University. March 2, 2018.