Jumping Johnny Wilson, American basketball player, Died at 91

John E. Wilson was born in 1927 and died on January 11, 2019.

 

Nicknamed Jumpin' Johnny Wilson.

 

He was an American basketball and baseball player.

 

Wilson earned his nickname for being the only player on his high school team able to dunk the basketball.

In 1946, during the high school championship game , Willson scored 30 of his team's 67 points in its victory over Fort Wayne Central High School, a record.

He served for eight years at head basketball coach at Wood High School in Indianapolis, then sixteen years as head coach and athletic director at Malcolm X College, compiling a 378-135 (.737) record.

 

Then, he worked as an assistant coach for Anderson College and Anderson High School.

He was the assistant basketball coach at Lock Haven University at the time of his death on January 11, 2019.

Jumping Johnny Wilson was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and the Anderson University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Johnny Wilson passed away at 91 years old.