Ives Dick

American basketball player for the University of Iowa from 1943-1944 to 1946–1947, he was nicknamed "Diagonal Dagger." Ives passed up the opportunity to play college basketball at Drake University on a full athletic scholarship so that he could play at Iowa under coach "Pops" Harrison. Ives had been a stand-out basketball player at Diagonal High School and led the team to the state championship. He later coached basketball and baseball at Parsons College, married Joan Newton and lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he had a hardware business. In 1954 they moved to Miami, Florida, and resided there for the rest of their lives. Ives died on 5 May 1997 in Miami at age 71. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less