STATISTICS & HISTORY
Dick Triptow was a fixture in Chicago basketball circles for four decades. As a teenager, he starred at Lane Tech High School and then went on to DePaul University were he was named an All-American in 1944. Triptow spent the first four seasons of his professional basketball career in Chicago. Playing alongside De Paul teammate, George Mikan, Triptow helped the Chicago Gears win the 1947 National Basketball League championship. After finishing the final years of his playing career away from the city, Triptow returned to Chicago where he taught and coached high school basketball for nine seasons and then coached basketball at Lake Forest College from 1959 until 1973.
| DICK TRIPTOW | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 170 | College: | DePaul’44 | |||||
| Richard Floyd Triptow Jr. | Born: Nov 3, 1922 | Died: Feb 20, 2015 | Hometown: | Chicago, Ill. | |||||||
| Tip Toe Triptow | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1940-41 | DePaul (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | DePaul | College | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | DePaul | College | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | DePaul | College | |||||||||
| 1944-45 | Chicago | NBL | 30 | 113 | 73 | 109 | .670 | 299 | 10.0 | ||
| 1945-46 | Chicago | NBL | 34 | 68 | 85 | 127 | .669 | 221 | 6.5 | ||
| 1946-47 | Chicago | NBL | 44 | 59 | 60 | 90 | .667 | 178 | 4.0 | ||
| 1947-48 | Chicago | PBLA | 8 | 24 | 7 | 14 | .500 | 55 | 6.9 | ||
| 1947-48 | Tri Cities–Fort Wayne | NBL | 57 | 92 | 87 | 138 | .630 | 271 | 4.8 | ||
| 1948-49 | Fort Wayne | BAA | 55 | 116 | 102 | 141 | .723 | 96 | 334 | 6.1 | |
| 1949-50 | Baltimore | NBA | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 2 | 0.5 | ||
| 1949-50 | Racine Knights | Indep | |||||||||
| 1950-51 | Racine Knights | Indep | 8 | 97 | 12.1 | ||||||
| Major League Totals | 240 | 472 | 416 | 611 | .681 | 1360 | 5.7 | ||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1944-45 | Chicago | NBL | 3 | 11 | 6 | 13 | .462 | 28 | 9.3 | ||
| 1944-45 | Chicago | WBT | 4 | 16 | 10 | 18 | .556 | 42 | 10.5 | ||
| 1945-46 | Fort Wayne | WBT | 5 | 10 | 9 | 12 | .750 | 29 | 5.8 | ||
| 1946-47 | Chicago | NBL | 11 | 19 | 15 | 22 | .682 | 53 | 4.8 | ||
| 1947-48 | Fort Wayne | NBL | 4 | 9 | 1 | 3 | .333 | 19 | 4.8 | ||
| 1948 | Fort Wayne | WBT | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 12 | 12.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 28 | 70 | 43 | 70 | .614 | 183 | 6.5 | ||||