Tusten Ackerman

Tusten Ackerman

Personal information
Born	October 7, 1901 Oklahoma[1]
Died	May 17, 1997 (aged 95) Wichita, Kansas
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school	Lawrence (Lawrence, Kansas)
College	Kansas (1922–1925)
Position	Forward / Center
Number	7, 1
Career highlights and awards
2x Helms Foundation All-American (1924, 1925) 2x AAU All-American (1925, 1926) Helms National Championship (1923)

Arthur Tusten "Tus" Ackerman (October 7, 1901 – May 17, 1997)^[2] was an American basketball player in the early days of college and semi-professional basketball.

Ackerman, a 6'3 forward/center from Lawrence, Kansas, played for coach Phog Allen at Kansas from 1922–1925. At the University of Kansas, he was a starter on the 1922–1923 Jayhawk team that was retroactively named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation and was named an All-American by that same organization for both 1924 and 1925.^[3]

Following his collegiate career, Ackerman played Amateur Athletic Union basketball for the Kansas City Athletic Club, where he was named an AAU All-American in 1925 and 1926.^[4]

Ackerman's jersey was retired by the University of Kansas and hangs in Allen Fieldhouse.^[3]

Notes

1. Both the 1910 and 1920 US Census records indicate his place of birth was Oklahoma; residence in 1910 was Boone County, Missouri and residence in 1920 was Lawrence, Kansas.
2. Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2011.
3. 2007-08 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball yearbook, pg. 138
4. Grundman, Adolph (January 2004). "The Golden Age Of Amateur Basketball: The AAU Tournament, 1921–1968". University of Nebraska Press.