Nationality American Position Guard / Forward Height 1.85 m Playing career Died March 8, 2002 | Listed weight 175 lb (79 kg) Role Basketball Player Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Name Al Bonniwell Weight 79 kg | |
Born October 6, 1911Wayne, Pennsylvania ( 1911-10-06 ) College Dartmouth Big Green Men's Basketball (1932–1935) | ||
Alfred Eugene "Al" Bonniwell (October 6, 1911 – March 8, 2002) was an American basketball player. An early professional in the National Basketball League, he was also an All-American college player at Dartmouth. Bonniwell played two seasons for the Akron Firestone Non-Skids, averaging 5.1 points per game in 39 contests. Bonniwell served in the U.S. Army in both World War 2 and the Korean war, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He moved to Alexandria, Virginia in 1961, and retired from the Army in 1967 as a colonel. He then worked as an employment counselor for the Virginia Employment Commission's Falls Church from 1968-1978. He married his wife Maxine (1922-2007) in 1949. They remained married until Al's death, and had two daughters (Linda and Debra, and one son, Ronald. In 2010, Bonniwell was posthumously inducted into the Lower Merion High School Basketball Hall of Fame, as the first alumnus of the school to play professional basketball.