Theodore "Ted" Kiendl, Jr. (May 5, 1890 – July 1976) was an American college basketball player at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 in the early 1900s who was a three-time All-American

NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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, one-time National Player of the Year and part of a retroactively-named national championship team in in 1909–10. In Kiendl's four seasons—between 1907–08 and 1910–11—the Lions compiled 42 wins and 16 losses. He was a team captain

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 in his final three seasons and was also a three-time All-Eastern Interscholastic League

Ivy League

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 selection (1908–09, 1911). Kiendl played the forward position and weighed 215 pounds (98 kg) by the time he was a senior

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 in 1910–11. He also played on the school's baseball team and served as a captain for three years.

Kiendl was a member of the Sigma Nu

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 fraternity. After completing his undergraduate schooling in 1911 he stayed at Columbia and earned his Bachelor of Laws

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 degree from Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School

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 in 1913. In his later life he served as a corporate lawyer

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 in New York

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state.