Frank Burgess

Franklin D. Frank Burgess was an American standout college basketball player and, later, a United States federal judge.

Burgess was born in Eudora, Arkansas. A man with a good sense of humor, he once described his hometown as being so small that the only fast food we had in that town was if you hit a deer going 70 . He attended Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College , a small school now known as the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, for one year while also playing on the basketball team. He then joined the Air Force and spent a fouryear tour of duty in Europe. Burgess still played basketball even in Germany and was so good that he was picked to be one of thebest Air Force players in the world. While stationed at Hahn Air Force Base he averaged 33.4160points per game. It was during this time that Burgess met Mel Porter, a fellow American Air Force officer and Gonzaga University alumnus. Porter recognized Burgess talent and played middle man to Burgess and the Gonzaga Bulldogs mens basketball coach, Hank Anderson. Although Burgess had also started to receive serious interest from Kan

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