Howard Cann briefly attended Dartmouth College and then transferred to New York University. During his freshman year in 1914, Howard was the leading scorer on the  NYU men’s basketball team. He was captain of the 1916-1917 football team, where he played as a tackle, punter  and also played in the backfield. Cann’s college career was interrupted for two years by  military service in World War I. He returned  to NYU in time for the 1919-20 basketball season and led the team to an AAU National Championship title. At the end of the season he was named an All-American and the Helms Foundation College Player of the Year. In the summer of 1920, he participated in the Olympic Games in Antwerp as a shot putter. Three years after graduating from NYU, Cann returned to the school as the men’s basketball coach. He coached the team for thirty-five years, from 1923 to 1958, and compiled a 409-232 record. His 1933-34 team was unbeaten and Cann’s 1934-35 team finished the season with an 18–1 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Association.  His 1944–45 team made it to the final game of the NCAA tournament, but lost the championship to Oklahoma State. Cann was named National Coach of the Year in 1947 and led the Violets to the NIT  final in 1948, but was defeated by St.Louis University. In 1968, Cann was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Ed  Campion was an a basketball star at St.Joseph’s High School in Evanston, Illinois who went on to gain All-American homors in 1937 playing for DePaul University.  He was also an alternate for the 1936 US Olympic Basketball Team.  Following his college career, Campion played for two seasons in the National Basketball League 

Soup Campbell was one of pro basketball’s top offensive stars in the early 1920s. Campbell was a fine set shooter, but speed and agility were the keys to his game.  He was considered one of the best of the “two-handed dribblers” of the era. Campbell’s greatest success came early in his pro basketball career.  In his first full pro season, he led the Camden Skeeters to the Eastern League championship and was the league’s leading scorer. He won two more EBL scoring titles in 1922 and 1923. He starred in the Metropolitan League for three seasons before he joined the American Basketball League in 1925. Campbell played for five ABL teams during the next four seasons. During the later years of his career, Campbell was no longer among the top echelon of scorers, but remained valuable as a floor leader and strategist.