The 1934 basketball team suffered through a 2-11 season.

Tthe one interesting note is that the coach of the freshman football team was named the head coach when Sam McAllister left after three years at the helm eventually winding up at Florida.

Just two returning players came to the first practice, so the squad was filled out with reserves and newcomers. One of the returning stars was David Ariail, first on the left on the back row. He was from Birmingham, was an All-Southern end on the football team, and was voted an All-American by his peers in that sport. he was drafted into the NFL, but it didn't stick. He became a colonel in the army, commanding tank destroyer battalions during the war. He made the Army his career. He and his wife and two daughters and a son. He died in North Carolina, in 2001.

The other returning player was Frank Sindler, a junior architecture major, from Islip, New York. He's second from the right on the back row, and was considered "an excellent floor man." I'm not sure what becomes of him, so we'll leave that alone for now.

Oh, the new basketball coach? Some guy named Ralph Jordan.

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