Ian Allison (basketball)
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1936 Berlin | Team competition |
Ian Alistar Allison (July 26, 1909[1] – August 4, 1990) was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.[2] His is the only Canadian basketball team to date to win a medal at the Olympics, a silver and also the last to win a team medal. He played all six matches including the final. He was high scorer with 4 points in Canada's 19–8 loss to the Americans.
Early life and working life
Allison was born in
Assumption College and finally University of Toronto
. After graduation, he went back to Walkerville to work as a teacher. A year later he married one of the secretaries of the school - Jean Alberta Reid, and eventually the couple had two daughters - Heather and Janey. Allison retired from teaching in 1973. He is an inductee into the Windsor Essex Sports Hall of Fame.
References
- ^ other sources report his year of birth: 1907
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ian Allison Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
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