Dillard Crocker led  Niles High School to the 1942 Michigan state Class B basketball championship. A year later, Crocker entered the Army to serve during World War. II.Crocker reentered the army in 1946 and served for two more years.  In the fall of 1948, the 23-year old Crocker entered Western Michigan University University with four years of eligibility and the potential for star-studded college career ahead of him. Within a month, however, he dropped out of school and signed a professional contract to play for the Fort Wayne Pistons in the Basketball Association of America. While Crocker never became a star, he did have a solid five-year big-league pro career. He was the second-highest scorer for the Denver Nuggets in 1950.

Jack Cremens was basketball star at St. Benedict’s Prep High School in  Newark, New Jersey. Cremens lacked the skills of the better centers of the era, but his size and enthusism kept him in demand as professionalbasketball player for a dozen seasons. In the top pro leagues, Cremens was usually  employed in a supporting role, but on indepentent teams, Cremens was often the headliner. Late in his career, CRemens spent ywo seasons in Wisconsin as the star of the Beloit Fairies, a perenially popular Midwest independent team.

When Harry Crichton was just 18 years old,  he played professional  basketball for Uniontown and his hometown Johnstown Johnnies in the Central Basketball League. The big youngster held his own against the seasoned pros in the CBL before his parents stepped in and pulled him out of the league. Crichton went on to  become a star football and basketball player at Lehigh University for the next three seasons. After graduating from Lehigh with a degree in engineering, Crichton  briefly returned to pro basketball, but had do give it up because of his burgeoning business career. Crichton , along with his brother Andrew, formed the Johnstown Coal and Coke Company after buying up property in Cambia and Somerset counties.  With Crichton as president,  the company become a major coal producer. Critchton become a nationally known mining engineer and held many important positions in the industry. He was Director of the American Businessmen’s Research Foundation and and in 1949 represented the United States at a United Nations Conference on world resources.

Claude Cribbs was a Helms Foundation All-American at the University of Pittsburgh in 1934 and 1935. Cribbs led the Panthers to a 53–15 record in his three varsity seasons, winning the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference in 1933 and 1934 and tying for the championship with West Virginia in 1935. After graduating from Pitt, Cribbs played professional basketball for two seasons with the Pittsburgh entry in the Midwest Basketball Conference. After retiring as a player, Cribbs won over 400 games as a high school basketball coach in the state of Ohio.