STATISTICS & HISTORY
Lou “Pick” Dehner was a football and basketball star at Lincoln, Illinois High School . Dehner went to college at the University of Illinois where he became a two-time basketball All-American. In the March of 1939, just days after his final college game, Dehner played professional basketball for a few weeks. He toured with a team of recent Illinois grads playing games throughout the state and making a one game appearance in the World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. He also scored scored 15 points in a single game appearance for the Hammond team in the National Basketball League. Dehner never played professional basketball again. In the fall of 1939, he took a position as the athletic director and head boys’ basketball coach for East St. Louis High School. Dehner remained at the school until 1974, compiling a record of 549–350.
| PICK DEHNER | Height: | 6:05 | Weight: | 190 | College: | Illinois’39 | |||||
| Louis Lyman Dehner | Born: Aug 29, 1914 | Died: Apr 7, 1987 | Hometown: | Lincoln, Ill. | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1933-34 | Illinois (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1934-35 | Illinois | College | 9 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 2.6 | ||||
| 1937-38 | Illinois | College | 17 | 88 | 47 | 223 | 13.1 | ||||
| 1938-39 | Illinois | College | 19 | 88 | 65 | 241 | 12.7 | ||||
| 1938-39 | Champaign Illinois Grads | Inep | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Hammond | NBL | 1 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | ||||
| 1939-40 | Washington Master Makers | Indep | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | ||||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1938-39 | Illinois Grads | WBT | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 4 | 4.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 4 | 4.0 | ||||