(1930-06-09)June 9, 1930 Maryville, Missouri, U.S.
Died
November 26, 2015(2015-11-26) (aged 85) Urbandale, Iowa, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight
210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school
Maryville (Maryville, Missouri)
College
Missouri (1949–1952)
NBA draft
1952: 1st round, 6th overall pick
Selected by the Boston Celtics
Position
Center / power forward
Career highlights and awards
2× First-team All-Big Seven (1951, 1952)
No. 43 retired by Missouri Tigers
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
William Albert Stauffer (June 9, 1930 – November 26, 2015) was an American basketball player. He was an all-conference college player at the University of Missouri and a first-round NBA draft pick by the Boston Celtics in 1952.[1]
Stauffer came to Missouri from Maryville High School in Maryville, Missouri. His father Marion Stauffer was publisher of the Stauffer Communications newspaper Maryville Daily Forum.[2]
Undersized for the center position at 6'4", he nonetheless was one of the Big Seven Conference's top rebounders and left Missouri as the school's all-time leader. He was named first-team All-Big Seven in both his junior and senior seasons.[3] Stauffer's jersey was the first retired by the Missouri basketball program and in 1991 he was elected to the school's athletic Hall of Fame.[4] In 2006, he was named to the school's All-Century team.[1]
Following the close of his college career, Stauffer was selected by the Boston Celtics in the first round of the 1952 NBA draft. However, he chose to instead enlist in the United States Air Force where he played basketball for the Andrews Air Force Base team that won the Air Force worldwide championship in 1954.[5]
After leaving the Air Force in 1954 he worked at the Louisiana Press-Journal in Louisiana, Missouri, and then from 1955 to 1963 in at Stauffer newspapers York News-Times and Grand Island Independent in Nebraska. He then worked at Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Iowa before retiring in 1992.
He died at 85 on November 26, 2015, from a brain hemorrhage.[1]
^ abc"Bill Stauffer 1930-2015". Columbia Daily Tribune. November 29, 2015. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
^"William Stauffer Obituary (2015) - Des Moines, IA - the Des Moines Register". Legacy.com.
^"Big Seven AP All-Stars are selected". The Daily Standard. March 14, 1952. p. 8. Retrieved December 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^Atchison, Michael (2006). True Sons: A Century of Missouri Tigers Basketball. Virginia Beach, Virginia: Donning Company Publishers. pp. 101–115. ISBN 1-57864-361-9.
^"12 Apr 1954, Page 2 - The Maryville Daily Forum at". Newspapers.com. April 12, 1954. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
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