Gus Broberg


Gustave Theodore Broberg, Jr. was an American college basketball standout, World War II pilot, lawyer and judge.
An American, Broberg played basketball as a forward at Dartmouth College from 1938 to 1941, where he became the first Ivy League player to lead the conference in scoring for three straight seasons; he scored 13.8 points per game as a sophomore, 14.5 ppg as a junior and 14.9 ppg as a senior. Broberg was a Helms Foundation First Team All-American as a sophomore in 1938–39, and then a two-time Consensus First Team All-American in 1940 NCAA [Men's Basketball All-Americans|1940] and 1941.
Broberg played minor league baseball for a brief stint after he graduated from college, but then enlisted in the United States Marine Corps to serve as a pilot in World War II. He lost his right arm when his plane crashed, earning him a Purple Heart.
He then became a lawyer and later on a judge in Florida after earning his J.D. from the University of [Virginia School of Law] in 1948.
Broberg's son, Pete Broberg, would pitch in Major League Baseball and both would be inducted into the Palm Beach Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.