American basketball player and coach (died 2003)

Clifton McNeely

Clyde Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach. 78 m) forward, he played college basketball for the Texas Wesleyan Rams for three seasons and led the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in scoring during his senior season in 1946–47. McNeely was the first player ever drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he was selected by the Pittsburgh Ironmen as the first pick of the league's inaugural 1947 draft. He never played professional basketball and instead pursued a coaching career at Pampa High School in Texas.

Born

1919

June 22

Died

Living

Era

1910s

Country

—

About

Clifton, in brief

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Life timeline

Key dates

1919 Born

Also on June 22

What else happened on this day, through history

-217 Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
-168 Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
431 The Council of Ephesus, the third ecumenical council, begins, dealing with Nestorianism.
813 Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.

See all of June 22 →

The world in 1919

When Clifton arrived

april 10 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
april 10 The Third Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.
april 13 Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured.
april 16 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.

Read the year 1919 →

Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 22

Abbas Kiarostami 1940–2016 Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer (born 1940) Darryl Brohman 1956– Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Jimmy Somerville 1961– Scottish singer-songwriter Jo Cox 1974–2016 English political activist and MP (born 1974) Maximilian von Spee 1861–1914 Danish-German admiral (born 1861) Prunella Scales 1932–2025 English actress (died 2025) Rui Zong 662–716 Chinese emperor (born 662) Stephen Chow 1962– Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Ura Kazuki 1992– Japanese sumo wrestler

See everything on June 22 →

Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1919

Alan Young 1919–2016 English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919) David Willcocks 1919–2015 English organist, composer, and conductor (died 2015) Doris Lessing 1919–2013 British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919) Edward Brooke 1919–2015 American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (born 1919) Émile Bouchard 1919–2012 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919) Eva Gabor 1919–1995 Hungarian-American actress (died 1995) Eva Perón 1919–1952 Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (born 1919) Fritz Langanke 1919–2012 German lieutenant (born 1919) George Wallace 1919–1960 American lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (died 1998)

Read about the year 1919 →

Keep going

More to explore

Clifton's birthday June 22 Clifton's zodiac Cancer When Clifton arrived 1919