RON LONESKI

LONESKI, RON

Hometown: Calumet City, IL and Hammond, IN (Hammond HS)
Born: 1936

Ron Loneski

CATEGORY   TOTAL   1957 1958 1959
YEAR     So. Jr. Sr.
POSITION     G/F F/G F/G
HEIGHT     6'4 6'4 6'4
WEIGHT     210 199 217
JERSEY          
Games Played/Started 63/   17/ 23/ 23/
Points 909   163 310 436
   Per Game 14.4   9.5 13.5 19.0
Rebounds 561   115 208 238
   Per Game 8.9   6.8 9.0 10.3
FG: Attempts 950   155 315 480
       Made 331   51 120 160
       Percent 34.8   32.9 38.0 33.3
FT: Attempts 399   87 117 195
       Made 247   61 70 116
       Percent 62.0   70.1 59.7 59.4
Production Points/Game          
Production Points/Minute          

1957:  Lettered, Starter.  Broke foot in first game - missed 10 games.

1958:  Lettered, Starter, All-Big 7.

1959:  Lettered, Starter.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

Pro career:

1957-59

Round drafted: 10

St. Louis Hawks

In 1966, played for Racing Mechelen in Belgium

Next to Wilt, Ron Loneski was Kansas’ biggest player. He spent 22 years in the military, another 10 teaching and coaching high school basketball in San Diego, where he cut eventual Super Bowl MVP Terrell Davis. Loneski and his wife recently moved back to Lawrence.

“It’s very deflating and very hurtful,” said Loneski, who still looks as if he could snap a redwood in half with his massive bare hands. “I think about that game every day. Every time I turn on the TV to watch basketball, that game is in the back of my mind.”

 

Special interview conducted 17 September 1969 with MAJ Ronald Loneski, Current Operations Branch, G-3, HQ USARV.