JOHN PARKER

PARKER, JOHN

Hometown:  Mission, KS (Shawnee Mission North HS)

John Parker

CATEGORY   TOTAL   1955 1956 1957
YEAR     So. Jr. Sr.
POSITION     G G G
HEIGHT     5'11 6'0 6'0
WEIGHT     178 178 173
JERSEY          
Games Played/Started 68/   21/ 20/ 27/
Points 325   105 72 148
   Per Game 4.8   5.0 3.8 5.5
Rebounds       36 53
   Per Game          
FG: Attempts       90 132
       Made 128   37 31 60
       Percent       34.4 45.5
FT: Attempts 111   53 19 39
       Made 69   31 10 28
       Percent 62.2   58.5 52.6 71.8
Production Points/Game          
Production Points/Minute          

1955:  Lettered, Starter.

1956:  Lettered.

1957:  Lettered, Starter, Captain

John Parker, Kansas’ starting point guard and co-captain of the ’57 basketball team, was an accomplished javelin thrower for the Jayhawks’ track squad.

Source: Source:  Tourney Time, Dick Vitale, 1994.  Page 73.

Recollections of 1957, by John Parker

Remembering John Parker, 3/3/2005

Ex-KU basketballer dead at age of 70, March 4, 2005

Eulogy for Parker, March, 2005