Bob Kurland, American basketball player and politician (died 2013)

Bob Kurland

American basketball player

Robert Albert Kurland was an American basketball center, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies. Standing 7-foot (2.1 m) tall, he has been credited as the first person to dunk in a college basketball game. He led the U.S. basketball team to gold medals in…