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Charlie Kraak

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American basketball player

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Frederick Kraak was an American basketball player, best known for his college career at Indiana University, where he was a starter on the school's 1953 NCAA championship team. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1932, and moved to Collinsville, Illinois, around 1940. Kraak, a 6'5" forward, became an All-state performer at Collinsville High School after growing six inches between his junior and senior years. He led Collinsville High to the Illinois state finals in his senior season. Indiana coach Branch McCracken recruited him to Indiana, where in his freshman season he came off the bench for a Hoosier team that went 16–6.

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