Jack Maddox

Jack Clinton Maddox


Born:
December 10, 1919
Medicine Mound, TX

Died:
July 9, 2006
Lamar City, TX


Career
1935-36 Wichita Falls High School - Texas (High School)
1936-37 Wichita Falls High School - Texas (High School)
1937-38 Wichita Falls High School - Texas (High School)
1940-41 West Texas State (College)
1941-42 West Texas State (College)
1942-43 West Texas State (College)
1946-47 Oshkosh All-Stars (NBL)
1947-48 Oshkosh All-Stars (NBL)
1948-49 Hammond Calumet Buccaneers (NBL)
1948-49 Indianapolis Jets (BAA)
1952-53 Blossom High School - Blossom, TX (High School) - Head coach
1953-54 Blossom High School - Blossom, TX (High School) - Head coach
1954-55 Blossom High School - Blossom, TX (High School) - Head coach

One of 13 children born to Benjamin Franklin Maddox and Nettie Hightower Maddox, Maddox went to SMU on an athletic scholarship but in February of 1939 was declared academically ineligible. He then transferred to West Texas State. He served in the USMC before his time as a professional basketball player. He also worked as a cowboy in the off season. Returned to Texas to work as a cowboy and a rancher, and was a calf roper in rodeos as well as teaching and working as a principal. He coached at Blossom HS, and also worked as a basketball official. (He often gets credit for playing with the Tulsa Ranchers, but that is actually Joe "Red" Maddox out of Northwestern State.)

He married Reva Doum (1920-2004) on July 24, 1946, and they had a son, Clint, and a daughter, Cassie.

Source:
Grave / Obituary
Vernon (TX) Daily Record 2/9/1939

Stats:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/nbl/players/m/maddoja01n.html
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/maddoja01.html
http://www.justsportsstats.com/basketballstatsindex.php?player_id=maddoja01