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 | ||||||