4 Year Varsity Basketball Letter Winner

2 Year Varsity Football Letter Winner

1934, 1935 & 1936 All-Conference Basketball Selection

1936-1939 Marquette University - Full Basketball Scholarship, 3 year starter

Post College - Sheboygan Redskins (forerunner of NBA)

1943-1946 U.S. Army Air Corp.

1949-1955 U.S. Army CIC Reserve Officer

1935 Dundee Community High School graduate, Glenn "Sparky" Adams was the leading scorer of the basketball team and in the conference his junior year. He scored more than one quarter of the team's points during his senior year. Adams was a three-year starter at Marquette University 1936-1939 and played professionally In the BBA, the forerunner of the NBA.

Adams passed away on March 31, 2011 in Newberry, South Carolina.

GLENN “SPARKY” ADAMS, guard, 1938-40, Sheboygan Red Skins

Heartbreak, notoriety and responsibility come with learning you are the last man standing.

Ask Glenn “Sparky” Adams. Eighteen men played for the Sheboygan Red Skins’ first team in 1938-39. Seventy years later, only Adams remains, according to former NBA historian Bill Himmelman.

Only Adams can relay firsthand how the National Basketball League was overshadowed in a country smitten with baseball and football, struggling with the effects of a Great Depression and on the verge of a second world war.

Only Adams can describe the balancing act of holding a job during the day and playing pro basketball at night. He commuted with teammate/welder Ed Dancker from Milwaukee for every Red Skins game, navigating hazardous roads often coated with ice and snow. Then he would report to work the next morning at A&P Tea Co. in Milwaukee.

“Pro basketball was just getting started,” remembered Adams, who lives in Newberry, S.C. “College basketball was very popular, of course.”

Adams, who plans to turn 92 in April, is quick to point out the most glaring difference between pro basketball’s formative years and today.

“The salaries guys are getting now are astronomical,” he said. “I can’t believe it: $160 million for 10 years. Golly sakes. I got $110 a month. That’s all I got.”

In addition to being last survivor, Adams did not realize his other claim: He and two Marquette University teammates were among the first collegians signed by the pros before graduation. This practice soon became common across the country, noted the second edition of The Sports Encyclopedia, Pro Basketball.