LEFTY SPROULL
SPROULL, RALPH DAVID “LEFTY”
Hometown: Lawrence, KS
Born
Oct 27, 1893
| CATEGORY | TOTAL | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | |
| YEAR | So. | Jr. | Sr. | ||
| POSITION | F | F | F | ||
| HEIGHT | 6'1 | ||||
| WEIGHT | 175 | ||||
| JERSEY | |||||
| Games Played/Started | 54/ | 22/ | 18/ | 14/ | |
| Points | 839 | 311 | 279 | 249 | |
| Per Game | 15.5 | 14.1 | 15.5 | 17.8 |
1912-13: Lettered, Starter, Conference Scoring Champ
1913-14: Lettered, Starter, Conference Scoring Champ
1914-15: Lettered, Starter, Conference Scoring Champ, All-MVC, All-American (Helms)
1915-16: Assistant Coach
Link to his Assistant Coach site
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Like Tommy Johnson, Lefty Sproull was a Lawrence product and an All-American forward. He was selected to the Helms Foundation’s All-American basketball team in 1915, the year he led KU to the Missouri Valley Conference title. The Jayhawks shared the league title in ’14. Sproull was a prolific scorer for his day leading the MVC in scoring all three years he played. He finished his career with 839 points, a mark which stood on the KU books until Clyde Lovellette topped it with 899 career points in 1950-52. His one game scoring mark of 40 against Washington University of St. Louis in ’13 also stayed on the KU ledger until Lovellette came along. He also was a two-year baseball letterman for KU ('14-'15) and was one of the top hurdlers in the nation making it to the U.S. Olympic Trials final in 1916.
Source: Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
Died - 24 Aug 1981