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Hinkle celebrates 80th birthday Butler and basketball-or athletics-are his life

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Tony Hinkle, one of college basketball’s winningest coaches before stepping down nearly 10 years ago in a mandatory retirement, turns 80 on Wednesday. still active in promoting Butler University and still outspoken on the game he says ‘‘has been my life.” Hinkle, absent from the northwestside Indianapolis campus only three years during World War II since he reported in 1920, carved a 559-399 record in basketball. He also coached baseball and football and won more than 1,100 games in the three sports. He was also athletic director for almost 40 years. Since his retirement as coach a decade ago, he has stayed with the university in a job that carries the title ‘‘special assistant to the president for community relations.” "They gave me this job (in 1970) which was very nice of them." said Hinkle, who still lives near campus in the same two-story house he has called home since 1938. “I go out to places where I think the university should be represented and people still call me wanting me to be chairman this or chairman that." Hinkle’s introduction to college athletics came as a student at the University of Chicago, where he earned nine letters in football, basketball and track from 1918-20. He was a guard on Chicago’s 1920 Big Ten championship basketball team. A native of Deer Creek, Ind., Hinkle was lured to Butler as an assistant to Pat Page, his former coach at Chicago. He also became baseball coach at that time, head basketball coach in 1926 and athletic director in 1931. He also was football coach in 1926, lost that job after a 3-6 season, and then got it back in 1935. During World War 11. he coached at the U.S. Navy’s Grea Lakes training station, notching impressive records of 19-4-1 in football nd 73-6 in basketball against major college teams. After the war, Hinkle returned to Butler with the rank of a

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full commander and resumed his multi-faceted job with the Bulldogs. ‘‘My job was football, basketball, baseball and director of athletics, recruiting and all that,” Hinkle said in a recent interview with the Indianapolis Star. ‘‘Really my job was my hobby, my entertainment, my everything. I used to take two weeks off in the summertime when my wife was living, but that was about all. I got more relaxation—and do now—by going over to the Fieldhouse. It was everything,” he said. The 15,000-seat arena was renamed Hinkle Fieldhouse before the 1965 season in which he became one of just a handful of college coaches to pass 500 career victories. The two major changes in basketball over the past 10 years, according to Hinkle, a member of the Naismith Hall of Fame, are in improved shooting and more fouling. “Fouling is going up because you profit from fouling,” he explained. “If a guy has me beat inside, I foul him. If my team has not committed its allotment of six personal fouls, the other team gets the ball out of bounds. “We were playing Notre Dame in the ’3os and Moose Krause (now the Irish athletic director) was in the pivot. He was a damn good pivot man but he was a lousy free thrower,” Hinkle recalled. “I doubt if he hit five out of every 25 free throws he took. “Every time Notre Dame threw the ball to Moose, we fouled him. We stood him up at the line 40 times and I doubt if he made 15. But we took the ball away 40 times for 15 points. You lose men but you can afford to lose them. We won the game.” Hinkle said the shooting is far better than it used to be, but he doubted whether many of today’s teams can hang onto the ball for more than a minute at a time. “The dribbling and passing and footwork has deteriorated because there are so

many great shooters,” he said. “You can have both, but it’s awful hard.” Butler, which will celebrate Hinkle’s 80th birthday during Saturday’s game against Toledo, has suffered from sagging attendance in recent years, and that disturbs the old but stillsharp coach. “We’re fighting for people to come to see the games. Against Bradley the other night, the (Indiana) Pacers were playing when we were playing. There is a big game on television

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