Dan Pippin

{{Short description|American basketball player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Dan Pippin

| image = Dan Pippin and Nancy Pippin, 1949.jpg

| width =

| caption = Pippin (left) at the University of Missouri in 1949 with sister Nancy

| position = Guard / forward

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lbs = 170

| number =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|10|20}}

| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1965|4|1|1926|10|20}}

| death_place = Mexico, Missouri, U.S.

| high_school = {{nowrap|Waynesville (Waynesville, Missouri)}}

| college = Missouri (1943–1948)

| career_start =

| career_end =

| highlights =

• 2× First-team All-Big Six (1944, 1947)
• 2× AAU All-American (1952–1953)

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Men's basketball}}

{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold| 1952 Helsinki | Team competition}}

}}

Dan Luther Pippin (October 20, 1926 – April 1, 1965) was an American basketball player who played for the University of Missouri. He later captained the American basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympics that won the gold medal in Helsinki. He played in all eight games.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/dan-pippin-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418090541/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/dan-pippin-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Dan Pippin |access-date=June 15, 2018}}

After Pippin graduated from the University of Missouri he went to work for the Caterpillar Tractor Company in Peoria, Illinois, and played for the National Industrial Basketball League team it sponsored, the Peoria Cats. Pippin later moved to New Mexico where he engaged in the insurance business before returning to his native Missouri. He committed suicide in 1965.{{Cite web |title=Dan Pippin |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/6873 |access-date=21 January 2021 |website=Olympedia}}{{Cite news |date=April 1, 1965 |title=Former Basketball Star Found Dead |page=1 |work=Council Grove Republican |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99345200/council-grove-republican/ |via=Newspapers.com}}