PLAYER PROFILE

KING KONG KLEIN

STATISTICS & HISTORY

Irwin “King Kong” Klein was a two-sport star at New York University in the mid-thirties.  He was an All American end on the Violets’ football team and the starting center on the basketball team that compiled a 49-5 record over three seasons. Klein played professional football for the New York Yankees in the American Football League. Klein played himself in the 1936 Hollywood film The Big Game.

 

KING KONG KLEIN Height: 6:03 Weight: 210 College: NYU’36
Irwin Klein Born:  Mar 23,1911 Died:  Aug 16, 1972 Hometown: Yonkers, NY
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA  FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS AVG
1930-31 C.C.N.Y. College
1931-32 C.C.N.Y. College
1932-33 C.C.N.Y. College
1933-34 C.C.N.Y. College
1935-36 Buffalo MBC 1 0 0 0 0.0
1936-37 New York King Kong Kleins Indep
Major League Totals 1 0 0 0 0.0
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