Portrait Mode

TigerBlog had the chance to meet with Barnes Hauptfuhrer yesterday morning.

The name probably rings a bell. Hauptfuhrer was a three-time All-Ivy League men's basketball player at Princeton, and he earned first-team All-Ivy honors in 1976 as a senior as part of Princeton's 14-0 Ivy League championship team that lost 54-53 to Rutgers in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Princeton had two first-team All-Ivy selections that season. The other one was also the Ivy Player of the Year. Can you name him? TB will give you a few paragraphs to figure it out.

Hauptfuhrer's career high was a 31-point game in a 70-59 win over Brown at Jadwin Gym his senior year, and he finished his career with 1,079 career points. He also holds a record that can't be beaten, having shot 11 for 11 from the field (and 2 for 2 from the line for 24 points) in an 80-66 loss to Notre Dame in 1974.

Here's another trivia question: Who led the Irish in scoring in that game? Hints - 1) he went on to score 23,177 points in the NBA; 2) he averaged 24.3 points per game for his career in the NBA and 3) he's in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Hauptfuhrer was the 44th pick in the 1976 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets, selected in the third round of what used to be a 10-round draft. He wouldn't play in the league, instead going from Princeton to grad school at Virginia and then to a long and successful career in banking. 

He recently published a book on Amazon called "Teamball," which takes his basketball career, especially his time playing for Pete Carril, and mixes it with the rest of his life experiences to speak about issues in leadership and management.

You can see more about it HERE, including how to purchase it. 

It looks pretty interesting. Here's something from Edward Kelly, Princeton Class of 1975:

“I went to Princeton because of Bill Bradley, marveled at John Wooden’s success at UCLA, suffered as a 76er fan the dominance of Red Auerbach and the Celtics, watched Pete Carril’s artistry at Princeton and, more recently while living in Charlottesville, have admired the discipline and commitment that Tony Bennett instills in his teams at Virginia. Until this book, I had not appreciated what linked these men to each other: a devotion to core-values driven leadership. Barnes ably explains in this engaging book what this is and why it matters - in everything from sports to business to politics."

As for Bill Bradley, he was on the Princeton main website recently after a ceremony to unveil a portrait of him that was painted after he was one of 10 people put forward by the University's Portraiture Nominations Committee. The painting, done by New York City artist Burton Silverman, will hang now in the Frist Campus Center.

Of course, no list of the most iconic Princetonians of all time would be complete unless Bradley was near the top. The greatest men's basketball player in the long history of the program, Bradley put up 2,503 career points, done in three years with no three-point shot. He still has the 11 highest-scoring games in Princeton's record book.

He also led Princeton to three Ivy League titles and the 1965 NCAA Final Four. He won a gold medal as the captain of the 1964 United States Olympic men's basketball team, and he won the Sullivan Award that year as the nation's top amateur athlete. 

He'd later win two NBA championships with the New York Knicks and earn a spot in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

And that's only one side of his story. The other is that he was a Rhodes Scholar who went on to be elected to the United States Senate three times. 

Another book well worth reading is "A Sense Of Where You Are," John McPhee's first book, which chronicles Bradley's 1965 senior year. McPhee was unable to be at the ceremony for Bradley, with whom he has stayed very close through the years, but he did write this about when the 1965 team returned to campus after its 40-point win over Providence in the East Region final and sent it along:

“Bill got up on top of the bus that returned the team to the center of the Princeton campus,” McPhee wrote. “A scarf flying across one shoulder, he addressed the thousands of students who had swarmed around the bus. Affection for his teammates and for the school around him came across in everything he said, feelings he would never lose. He is still on top of the bus, and his likeness has evolved into an enduring portrait.”

That is really good. 

Oh, and the trivia answers: The first one was Armond Hill. The second was Adrian Dantley.