Fred Beretta

Fernando Frederick Beretta was an American basketball player. He is best known for his NCAA [Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American] college career with Purdue University.
Beretta played at Bedford High School in Bedford, Indiana, then went to Purdue to play college basketball. At Purdue Beretta was a three-year letterman, a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and earned first-team All-Big Ten Conference and first-team All-American honors from the Helms Athletic Foundation as a senior in 1940. A guard, Beretta was known as a strong defender and ballhandler.
Beretta played for the Akron Firestone Non-Skids in the 1940–41 National [Basketball League (United States)|National Basketball League] season, prior to joining the U.S. Army for World War II. Beretta would later be inducted into the Purdue athletic hall of fame and the Indiana [Basketball Hall of Fame].