In Memory

Forrest Sprowl (Coach Basketball & Track 1946-47)

Forrest Sprowl (Coach Basketball & Track 1946-47)

Forrest H. “Frosty” Sprowl, 69, of Appleton, Wisconsin, a former Purdue University All-Big Ten basketball player and former basketball coach at Monticello High School died unexpectedly at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, 1988 while playing golf.

He was named All-Big Ten in basketball in 1942, the same year Purdue students named him the athlete of the year. He was named to the Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978.

Mr. Sprowl enlisted in the Navy following graduation from Purdue in 1942. For one year he played basketball for the All-American Basketball team at Great Lakes Naval Center in Chicago.

Following his discharge, Mr. Sprowl coached basketball and track at Olney, Illinois High School and later at Monticello High School.

After moving to Appleton, he coached basketball, tennis and was an assistant football coach at Lawrence University at Appleton. He received his Master’s Degree from Purdue in 1951. From 1955 until his retirement in 1982, Mr. Sprowl was a regional sales manager for the Fox River Paper Corp. in Appleton.

Mr. Sprowl was born August 23, 1919 in Huntington, Indiana.

Surviving are his wife, the former Roberta Gleven; a daughter, Pamela Diehl; a son, David Wayne Sprowl and two sisters, Helen Sears and Esther Graham.

Burial in Oblong Cemetery, Oblong, Illinois.

Published in Journal & Courier (Lafayette, IN) – Saturday, October 22, 1988