JOHN PARKER
PARKER, JOHN
Hometown: Mission, KS (Shawnee Mission North HS)
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