Meet The World’s Oldest College Basketball Player
February 27, 2009 Posted in College
In 1957, Ken Mink left his junior college basketball team after his freshman year to join the Air Force, a decision he regretted for decades. Now, 53-years later his journey as the world’s oldest college basketball player has come to an end.
The 73-year-old was deemed ineligible to play by the Tennessee Junior College Athletic Association after Roane State failed to report changes to his academic schedule.
As a penalty the school will have to forfeit a game in which the man, born in 1936 scored two points.
To put his age in perspective, here are a list of things that happened in the year of Ken Mink’s birth.
• The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio,
• The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
• Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
• British luxury liner RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic.
• Joe Louis lost his boxing title at Yankee Stadium.
• Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
• The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history.
• The last surviving Tasmanian Devil dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term
• The first edition of Life Magazine is published.
• The YMCA is founded in Albany, NY.
• Nat King Cole’s recording career begins
• African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.
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i'd like to party with this guy. he's been ripping beer bongs since before we all were born