Ralph Ogden

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Basketball player
Ralph Ogden
Player information
birthday 25th January 1948 (age 72)
place of birth San Jose ( California ), United States
size 196 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Power forward
college Santa Clara University
NBA draft 1970, Pick 53, San Francisco Warriors
Clubs as active
1967-1970 United StatesUnited States Santa Clara Broncos ( NCAA )
1970-1971 United StatesUnited States San Francisco Warriors
1972-1974 GermanyGermany VfL Osnabrück
1974-1976 GermanyGermany RuWa Dellwig
1976-1985 GermanyGermany Oldenburg TB
Clubs as coaches
1985-1990 GermanyGermany Oldenburg TB
1995-1996 GermanyGermany Oldenburg TB

Ralph A. Ogden (born  January 25, 1948 in San José , California ) is a retired American basketball player . He usually played in the positions forward (in the USA) and power forward (in Germany). He is considered the first former professional player of the National Basketball Association to play in the basketball league . In Germany he played for VfL Osnabrück , RuWa Dellwig and the Oldenburger TB . After his playing career, he worked as a coach for Oldenburg and celebrated numerous German maxi basketball championships .

Career

childhood and education

Ralph Ogden was born in San José , California, the son of World War II veteran Carlos Ogden. He is a graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School in San Jose . It was there that he began playing basketball. Even in high school he was considered a good player and was honored as an All-CCS and All-Northern California player in 1965 and 1966.

As a college basketball player, Ralph Ogden played with his two year older brother Bud Ogden for Santa Clara University in the US state of California . Under Head Coach Dick Garibaldi and Assistant Coach Carroll William the two brothers and the formed center Dennis Awtrey the strongest and most successful frontcourt of the Santa Clara Broncos in the twentieth century. In the two years 1968 and 1969, which the brothers played together in college, the Broncos won the Pacific-8 Conference and reached the final of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship . In both years, however, you lost to the team of UCLA Bruins , which were led by Lew Alcindor , who would later rule the NBA as Kareem Abdul Jamar. Also in his senior year of college, now without his brother, Ralph Ogden reached the final of the NCAA; but where you lost in the semi-finals of the regional elimination against Utah State University . Overall, Ogden scored 1,280 points during his time with the Broncos.

As a basketball player in the USA

Ralph Ogden was selected as Pick 53 by the San Francisco Warriors in the March 1970 NBA Draft 1970 in the fourth round . He and Dennis Wade Awtrey (Pick 36, Philadelphia 76ers ) were the only two Santa Clara Broncos players in that draft. Ogden was the eighth player from Santa Clara University to sign a contract with an NBA club or a club in another US professional league. Ralph followed his older brother into the NBA, who had played for Philadelphia there since 1969 .

The Warriors played in the Pacific Division of the National Basketball Association's Western Conference . Ralph Ogden made his debut in the NBA as a 23-year-old player on October 16, 1970 at the Oakland-Alamenda Country Coliseum Arena. Ralph Ogden played in the NBA for the San Francisco Warriors wearing jersey number 22. Ralph Ogden played for the Warriors with two future members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, with Jerry Lucas as the youngest player and informal team captain gold medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics , and Nathaniel Thurmond , together. Under head coach Al Attles , they made it into the play-offs in 1971, where they were defeated by the later champion Milwaukee Bucks in the first round . Ogden played just under 5 minutes per game in a total of 32 games and scored an average of 1.3 points. At the end of the season, his contract was terminated. After a year without engagement, he was recruited by VfL Osnabrück in 1971 .

Basketball Bundesliga

Ralph Ogden came to the season 1972/73 to VfL Osnabrueck , in the early 1970s still a team from the top flight of the Bundesliga of DBB to play as a pro. Since the league was still an amateur league at that time, he had to look for a job alongside sports. In the year of the German championship in 1969, the VfL successful team was still characterized by the fact that the eleven-man championship team played seven players with a length of more than 1.90 meters. Previously, no first division team that had ever stood in one of the 19 DBB finals could show a better average value of the length of the players under final baskets. When Ralph Ogden came to the peace city of Osnabrück , the commitment of the Power Forward continued to strive to close the gap created by the departure of some top performers. In this season there were only five players from the German champions in 1969 and finalists in the 1969 DBB Cup final: Helmut Uhlig , Klaus Weinand , Ingbert Koppermann , Eckhard Meyer and Harald Rupp . In Ralph Ogden's first season, the VfL basketball players managed to get into Group 1 of the Bundesliga finals. However, the team did not succeed in building on the great successes achieved in the 1960s.

After the presidium of VfL Osnabrück , chaired by the entrepreneur Hartwig Piepenbrock , decided not to allow the club's first division basketball players to continue playing in the first division (the budget of VfL basketball players was in the mid five-digit DM range), they changed Ralph Ogden with some other Bundesliga players from Osnabrück to the promoted RuWa Dellwig from Essen . This basketball club was able to move into group one of the Bundesliga finals at the end of the 1974/75 Bundesliga round, and then ended the 1975/76 season in tenth place in the final table. This was synonymous with relegation, after which the club broke up.

Oldenburg TB

For the 1976/77 season, Ralph Ogden moved to Oldenburg, mainly for reasons of his personal life planning: He had previously met his future spouse, the sister of Oldenburg basketball player Dieter Schnitker, at a tournament in Westerstede . The former head of the TB Gerold Lange , who later became managing director and honorary president of EWE Baskets Oldenburg , brought the Bundesliga player to the top division basketball team at the time - the Oldenburg TB was relegated from the first division in 1971 . It was Gerold Lange who made it possible for the basketball professional at the time to start a career with sensible prospects. Ralph Ogden was the first US player to take to the floor for the OTB. With the arrival of Ralph Ogden, the period of failure of the OTB ended. The OTB subsequently succeeded in moving from the Oberliga to the Regionalliga, advancing to the 2nd Bundesliga North. The team around Ralph Ogden managed to establish itself in the group of the best performing teams in the second Bundesliga.

After the active career

1985 Ogden became coach of the Oldenburg. He managed to lead the team into the basketball league . At the end of the 1985/86 season , the return to the Second Bundesliga could not be prevented. In 1987 the team was promoted again , but in 1988 they were relegated again. When the team is almost relegated in the relegation round of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1990 , Ogden left the club. Subsequently, he was a trainer at Wolfenbüttel and briefly managing director at Brandt Hagen . He also returned to the coaching position at Oldenburg, but was dismissed at the beginning of the 1996/97 season .

As a maxi basketball player , Ogden and his teams in Germany, MTV Wolfenbüttel (three times) and Oldenburger TB, won the DBB winners' cup a total of nineteen times in an age group tournament for German leisure basketball players . In 1990, Ralph Ogden reached in Prague ( Czech Republic ) at a tournament of the Argentine sports event organization FIMBA with an international over-60 player selection starting under the "German flag", which also included Ogden's brother "Bud" Ogden (USA) Final against the United States in second place.

Ralph Ogden left Oldenburg at the end of June 2012 after having lived in Germany for forty years . He returned to California to live in Camino, El Dorado County .

successes

Santa Clara Broncos

  • 1968/69: All-West Coast Conference Second Team
  • 1969/70: All-West Coast Conference First Team
  • 1,280 points scored (17th place in Bronco's history)
  • Points average of 15.8 (7th place in Broncos history)
  • 425 points in the 1968/69 season (9th place in Bronco's history)
  • 590 points in the 1969/70 season (2nd place in Bronco's history)

Honors

As a result of his work as a coach and especially as a very committed maxi basketball player , Ralph Ogden was repeatedly honored and honored by the mayors of the city of Oldenburg as part of the honoring of the successful athletes of the year.

For his "life's work" as a basketball player, Ralph Ogden and his older brother Carlos "Bud" Ogden were inducted into the Hall of Fame in San José, his hometown, in November 2007. The bronze masks of the "basketball brothers" are on permanent display next to that of Mark Spitz , the seven-time gold medalist at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the bronze masks of other very successful athletes in the Jan José Hall of Fame. Ralph Ogden is also a member of the Santa Clara Athletic Hall of Fame of his university, the Santa Clara University, a private, Catholic university and Jesuit universities for his achievements and services as a former college basketball player . Likewise his brother Carlos "Bud" Ogden.

Web links

  • Ralph Ogden At: Basketball Reference Web Site; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2018. Retrieved September 6, 2018 (in English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 2007 Halle of Fame biographies . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 8, 2016 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sjsa.org
  2. ↑ A Century of Bronco Basketball - Ralph Ogden. Santa Clara University website - Santa Clara Magazine. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  3. ↑ Late '60s were glory days for SCU hoops - Ralph Ogden. Santa Clara University website - Santa Clara Magazine. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  4. ^ NBA & ABA Players Who Attended Santa Clara University . Basketball Reference website. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b c d Felix Zimmermann: Ralph Ogden over 40 years in Germany: "I thought: Where did I end up here?" In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 25, 2012, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed September 4, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Roland Schekelinski: Gerold Lange celebrates 85th birthday! Double interview with Hermann Schüller: "Our motto was: We'll make something out of it!". Accessed on September 4, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Throwing out brings a turning point in life . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nwzonline.de
  8. ↑ Management of EWE Baskets . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 4, 2013 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ewe-baskets.de
  9. ↑ Wednesday newspaper Oldenburg - Sport, January 23, 2008, p. 12.
  10. ↑ EWE Baskets Oldenburg. History ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ The history of EWE Baskets Oldenburg on a timeline On: EWE Baskets Oldenburg website; Oldenburg, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  12. ↑ Heinz Arndt: BASKETBALL: Throwing out brings a turning point in life . In: NWZonline . September 2, 2005 ( nwzonline.de [accessed September 4, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Ralph Ogden Announces Return to NWZ Online Website, July 10, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
  14. ↑ New love moves Ogden to California  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. NWZ Online website, January 14, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nwzonline.de  
  15. ↑ THE RECORDS. Accessed September 4, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Another high honor for Ralph Ogden . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 22, 2016 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oldenburger-turnerbund.de
  17. ↑ Santa Clara Athletic Hall of Fame - Ralph Ogden. Santa Clara Broncos website. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  18. ^ Former Bronco Basketball Stars Bud and Ralph Ogden to be Inducted Into San Jose Sports Hall of Fame . Santa Clara Broncos website. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Ogden, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ogden, Ralph A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and coach in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , California