A 1947 graduate of Glen-Nor High School, he played basketball for the team that defeated Chester in the 1947 Kiwanis Tournament championship game. After two years in the Air Force, he attended Elizabethtown College and played soccer and basketball. He was named outstanding male athlete in the Class of 1954. He was head basketball coach at Chichester High School for three years, then coached for one year at Abington before becoming head coach at Bloomsburg State College, where his teams won 45 games in three seasons. In 1963, he became head coach at Rutgers University, where he won 120 games in eight seasons and twice led the team to the National Invitation Tourny (NIT). He was head coach at the University of Utah for three years, and his 1974 team played in the NIT championship game. He was head coach at Duke University from 1975-80, winning 113 games and three Atlantic Coast Conference titles. His Blue Devils teams made three NCAA Tourny app, and in 1978 he was named Coach of the Year by the National Assoc of Basketball Coaches and The Sporting News after Duke advanced to the NCAA title game. After leaving Duke, he coached at the Univ of S Carolina for six seasons and Northwestern Univ for 7years. In 30 years of coaching, his teams won 445 games. He was the first coach to direct four Division I schools to 20 win seasons.