Bobby Anet
{{Short description|American basketball player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Bobby Anet
| image = Bobby_Anet.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = Anet from the 1939 Oregana
| position = Guard
| number = 20
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 8
| weight_lb =
| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|8|11}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|7|25|1917|8|11}}
| death_place = Lake Oswego, Oregon
| highschool = Astoria (Astoria, Oregon)
| college = Oregon (1936–1939)
| career_start =
| career_end =
| highlights =
- NCAA champion (1939)
- Consensus second-team All-American (1939)
- No. 20 retired by Oregon Ducks
}}
Charles Robert Anet (August 11, 1917 – July 25, 1981) was a college basketball guard who helped guide the University of Oregon to win the inaugural NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship in 1938–39. Aside from scoring 10 points in the 46–33 win over Ohio State in the title game, Anet is most remembered for breaking the championship game trophy when he accidentally knocked it over while diving for a loose ball during play. The damaged trophy contributed to the NCAA's overall loss of $2,531 in the tournament—the only deficit that the event has ever posted.{{cite web
| title = Why will Oregon guard Bobby Anet always be associated with the first-ever NCAA tournament?
| publisher = Answers Corporation
| work = answers.com
| url = http://www.answers.com/topic/why-will-oregon-guard-bobby-anet-always-be-associated-with-the-first-ever-ncaa-tournament
| year = 2010
| access-date = June 30, 2010}}
Early life
A native of Astoria, Oregon, Anet played basketball at Astoria High School. He was a two-time Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) 4A All-Tournament team member (1934, 1935) while leading Astoria High to two state championships.{{cite news|title = Tall Firs' captain dies in Portland|work= Eugene Register-Guard|pages = B1–B2|date = July 25, 1981|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2DwpAAAAIBAJ&pg=1853,7569897|access-date = July 30, 2010}} Following his senior season, his high school coach, John Warren, was hired as the freshman basketball coach at the University of Oregon. Warren recruited Anet and teammate Wally Johansen to play college basketball at the school.{{cite news|url=http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2004/03/04/culture.html|title=Hometown History: local sports champions|last=Wadsworth|first=Lois|work=Eugene Weekly|date=March 4, 2004|access-date=July 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202130143/http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2004/03/04/culture.html|archive-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=dead}}
College
In Anet's three seasons playing for the Ducks, he was team captain twice, including his senior season when they won the national championship. He was the smallest player on an historically tall team and measured only {{height|ft=5|in=8}} in height but was described as having the biggest heart. Oregon went 74–22 during those three seasons and also won a Pacific Coast Conference championship in the same year as their national title run.{{cite magazine|last=Gergen|first=Joe|title=The beginning: Oregon is king – 1939|magazine=Sporting News|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/ncaa/1939.html|access-date=July 7, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004033704/http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/ncaa/1939.html|archive-date=October 4, 2008|df=mdy-all}} By leading Oregon to its only national championship in men's basketball to date, Anet was named a consensus second team All-American. He later had his jersey (#20) retired, and was also inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame as well as the University of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web| title = Bobby Anet| publisher = University of Oregon| work = GoDucks.com| url = http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=246362| date = March 8, 2006| access-date = June 30, 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090429032606/http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=246362| archive-date = April 29, 2009| df = mdy-all}}
References
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{{1939 Oregon Webfoots men's basketball navbox}}
{{1939 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans}}
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Category:All-American college men's basketball players
Category:American men's basketball players
Category:Basketball players from Oregon
Category:Oregon Ducks men's basketball players
Category:People from Astoria, Oregon