Max Morris

{{Short description|American basketball and football player (1925–1998)}}

{{for|the American labor unionist and politician|Max Morris (unionist)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|03|13}}

| birth_place = Norris City, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|01|08|1925|03|13}}

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| position1 = End

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| college = Northwestern

| NFLDraftedYear = 1947

| NFLDraftedRound = 26

| NFLDraftedPick = 245

| NFLDraftedTeam = Chicago Bears{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/teams/teamyear.htm?tm=CHI&yr=1947&lg=nfl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829210833/http://www.databasefootball.com/teams/teamyear.htm?tm=CHI&yr=1947&lg=nfl |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 29, 2007 |title=1947 Chicago Bears |website=databaseFootball.com |access-date=July 5, 2020}}

| playing_years1 = 1946–1947

| playing_team1 = Chicago Rockets

| playing_years2 = 1948

| playing_team2 = Brooklyn Dodgers

| career_highlights =

Consensus All-American (1945)
First-team All-Big Ten (1945)

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| high_school = Frankfort (West Frankfort, Illinois)

| college = Northwestern (1943–1946)

| career_start = 1946

| career_end = 1950

| career_number = 11

| career_position = Forward / center

| years1 = 1946–1947

| team1 = Chicago American Gears

| years2 = 1947–{{nbay|1949|end}}

| team2 = Sheboygan Red Skins

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NBL champion (1947)
Consensus first-team All-American (1946)
Consensus second-team All-American (1945)

| stats_league = NBA

| stat1label = Points

| stat1value = 781

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Glen Max Morris (March 13, 1925 – January 8, 1998) was an American professional basketball and American football player. He was a consensus All-American in both sports for Northwestern University and later played professional football for the Chicago Rockets and Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference. He also played in the NBA for the Sheboygan Red Skins.

Biography

Morris was born in Norris City, Illinois and attended Frankfort Community High School in West Frankfort, Illinois where the high school gymnasium is named after Morris.{{cite web |url=http://www.wfschools.org/education/sportszone/sportszone.php?sectionid=423&linkid=nav-menu-container-4-43 |title=Boys Basketball - FCHS Boys Basketball |website=www.wfschools.org |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728174545/http://www.wfschools.org/education/sportszone/sportszone.php?sectionid=423&linkid=nav-menu-container-4-43 |archive-date=28 July 2011 |url-status=dead}} He later attended the University of Illinois and Northwestern University.

Morris was the last Northwestern athlete to be selected as a first-team All-American in two sports.{{cite web|title=Max Morris profile|publisher=Northwestern University Athletics|url=http://nusports.cstv.com/genrel/morris_max00.html|access-date=2009-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703035754/http://nusports.cstv.com/genrel/morris_max00.html|archive-date=2009-07-03|url-status=dead}} He was a consensus All-American football player at the end position in 1945.Consensus All-American designations based on the [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4844195/Awards-compiled-NCAA-2008-Record-Book-Division-1-Football NCAA guide to football award winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714223946/http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4844195/Awards-compiled-NCAA-2008-Record-Book-Division-1-Football |date=2009-07-14 }} That year, Morris set a Big Ten Conference single-game record with 158 receiving yards in a game against Minnesota.{{cite news|title=Wisconsin|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal|date=1952-11-28}}

Morris was also selected as a consensus All-American basketball player at the forward position in 1946.[http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_basketball_RB/2009/Award.pdf NCAA Record Book - Award Winners] p.137. Accessed 2009-11-17. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090816065108/http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_basketball_RB/2009/Award.pdf Archived]}} 2009-05-04. He won the Big Ten Conference basketball individual scoring championship in both 1945 and 1946.{{cite news|author=Henry J. McCormick|title=Playing the Game: 22 Years Between Scoring Champions|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal|date=1960-03-09}}

After graduating from Northwestern, Morris played three seasons of professional football in the All-America Football Conference for the Chicago Rockets (1946–1947) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1948). He played in a total of 39 professional football games and had 53 receptions for 677 yards.{{cite web|title=Max Morris statistics |publisher=databasefootball.com |url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=MORRIMAX01 |accessdate=2009-11-17 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123100928/http://databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=MORRIMAX01 |archivedate=2011-11-23 }}

Besides playing professional football, Morris played four seasons of professional basketball in the NBL and NBA with the Chicago American Gears and the Sheboygan Red Skins.''Official NBA Encyclopedia. Doubleday, 2000. pg. 659{{cite web|title=Max Morris statistics|website=Basketball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/morrima01.html|accessdate=19 April 2023}}

In 1984, Morris was a charter inductee into the Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame.{{cite web|title=Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame |publisher=Northwestern University Athletics |url=http://nusports.cstv.com/ot/nw-hall-of-fame.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120713174100/http://nusports.cstv.com/ot/nw-hall-of-fame.html |archivedate=2012-07-13 }}

In 1985, the gymnasium at Frankfort Community High School, Morris' alma mater, was named in his honor.{{cite news |date=January 9, 1985 |title=Alma Mater Names Gym in Honor of Legend Max Morris |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-republic-frankfort-community-high-sc/137701794/ |work=The Republic |publication-place= Columbus, Indiana |access-date=December 30, 2023}}

Career statistics

=NBA=

Source

==Regular season==

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
Year ! Team ! GP ! FG% ! FT% ! APG ! PPG
style="text-align:left;"\| 1949–50 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Sheboygan \| 63	.363	.667	3.1	12.6

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"

Year

! Team

! GP

! FG%

! FT%

! APG

! PPG

style="text-align:left;"| 1949–50

|style="text-align:left;"| Sheboygan

| 63

.363

.667

3.1

12.6

==Playoffs==

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
Year ! Team ! GP ! FG% ! FT% ! APG ! PPG
style="text-align:left;"\| 1950 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Sheboygan \| 3	.350	.577	4.7	14.3