STATISTICS & HISTORY
Clifton “Lefty” Byers starred in basketball for Kansas State University, Babe Didrickson’s All-Americans and Olson’s Terrible Swedes in barnstorming circles and for the Goodyear Wingfoots before becoming the Goodyears coach for three seasons in the mid-1930’s. His 1936-37 team won the Midwest Basketball Conference championship.
| LEFTY BYERS | Height: | 5:11 | Weight: | 165 | College: | Kansas State’27 | |||||
| Clifton Andrew Byers | Born: Sep 6, 1905 | Died: May 25, 2000 | Hometown: | Grant, Ks | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1926-27 | St.Joseph Hillyard Shine Alls | AAU | |||||||||
| 1927-28 | Olsen’s Terrible Swedes | Indep | |||||||||
| 1928-29 | OLsen’s Terrible Swedes | Indep | |||||||||
| 1928-29 | Flint Buick Flyers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1929-30 | Olsen’s Terrible Swedes | Indep | |||||||||
| 1929-30 | Akron Firestone Non-Skids | Indep | |||||||||
| 1930-11 | Akron Firestone Non-Skids | Indep | |||||||||
| 1931-32 | Hutchinson CReamery | AAU | |||||||||
| 1932-33 | Indep | ||||||||||
| 1933-34 | Babe Didrikson All-Stars | Indep | |||||||||
| 1934-35 | |||||||||||
| 1935-36 | Akr0n Goodyears | AAU | |||||||||
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| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1943-44 | Akron Collegians | WBT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | ||||||