Ivan Loos was a fine  athlete, who for many years played both professional basketball and baseball.  During the first decade of professional basketball,  centers where usually not much taller than other players. Loos, who was a center for much of his career, was just 5’9″. Loos played alongside his younger brother, Billy, for many years.  Loos was a key player on some strong Philadelphia Basketball League teams. His 1905-06 Manayunk squad tied for first place, but lost the playoff for championship. Loos was the center for the 1908  PBL champion Germantown team and was  well on his way to a second consecutive championship with the same team when the PBL  folded midway through 1908-09 season. Loos pitched one inning in one game in 1901 for the Philadelphia Phillies. He retired from professional baseball for  five years and then returned in 1906 and pitched for five more seasons in the minors.

In the fall 0f 1894, Walter Barber, a seventeen year old high school student, signed to play for the Millville, New Jersey YMCA’s  first basketball team, a nine-man combination. The newly invented sport captured the imagination of the prosperous southern New Jersey community where it  remained  at a fever pitch for the next decade. Within a few years, Barber, a splendid all-around athlete, was widely heralded  as one of the best players in basketball. Barber ranked among the leading scorers in the National Basketball League  every season in the league’s five and half year existence. Barber worked for many years as a glassblower in Millville and later served as the town’s postmaster.

Matt Zunic  played college basketball at the George Washington University.  After serving in the Navy during World War II, He spent three seasons with The Midland Dow Chemical Company basketball team.  He played one season (1948-49) with the Washington Capitols in the Basketball Association of America. Zunic coached seven seasons at Boston University (1952-53 through 1958-59), compiling a 96-58 record. He then moved to the University of Massachusetts, coaching for four seasons (1959-60 through 1962-63), compiling a 57-41 record.