Jim Spruill

James Winfred Spruill (February 26, 1923 – January 8, 2006) was an American professional basketball and football player.[1][2] He played in the Basketball Association of America for the Indianapolis Jets in just one game during the 1948–49 BAA season.[1] In that game he scored two points and recorded three personal fouls.[1] His professional football career was longer, spanning the 1948 and 1949 seasons in the All-America Football Conference.[2] Spruill played for the Baltimore Colts in 26 total games (starting 15 of them).[2] In college, Spruill had college basketball and college football at Rice University.[1] He was later a high school football coach, at Durango High School in Durango, Colorado, Amphitheater High School in Tucson, Arizona, and Lompoc High School in Lompoc, California.[3]