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- Title:
- Student-Athlete
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- Previous College Sports Played:
- Men's Basketball
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- Graduating Class:
- 1953
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- Induction Class:
- 1959
Bio
A key member of Morningside’s formidable 1951-52 basketball squad, Ray Knauer held the college’s single game scoring record for nearly 40 years. Knauer exploded for 41 points in a 1952 contest against Washburn, including 16 field goals. After a runner-up finish in North Central action, the 1952 squad made a deep run in the National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament, dispatching Parsons, Wartburg, Pepperdine, and Eastern Illinois before falling to Springfield College of Missouri in the quarterfinals en route to a 20-10 record.
The Sheldon, Iowa, native scored 720 points in two seasons with the Maroons, and went on to teach, and coach at Cherokee, Calumet, and Sioux City West High Schools, charting a 326-188 in 23 seasons.
Knauer led tiny Calumet High School to the Iowa Class B state championship in 1959, and runner-up finishes in 1957, and 1960. He was inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1982.